Re: [Xen-users] hardware recommendations please

[Peter Booth <peter_booth@xxxxxxx>]

Ditto Fajar's experience- IBM, Dell in datacenter and using cheap Dell  
workstations as dev servers has worked well.
On Oct 16, 2009, at 9:27 AM, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Chris Fanning
> <christopher.fanning@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > yeah, good luck. That's what I'm going to need.
> > I've been installing the occasional xen server for 4 years now, and  
> > it's
> > always the same story. :(
> What are you going to use it for anyway?
> If it's "normal" (e.g. web, database, etc.) server stuff, you probably
> won't need IOMMU anyway.
> Intel VT/AMD-V (supported in CPU and BIOS) should be enough to run
> Windows guests, and a lot of setup supports it. It'd probably be
> easier to ask your supplier whether it can run Windows 7's "XP mode"
> (it has the same requirement for VT).
>
> Personally I've only used Dell/HP/IBM/Sun boxes for Xen on servers
> (it's "company policy" thing). I needed to enable VT in BIOS
> here-and-there, and update NIC's firmware on some old IBM servers, but
> other than that they work great for Linux and Windows domUs.
>
> --
> Fajar
>
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