Virtualization Question ...

[David A. Bandel]

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 01:12, Yu Meng Chong <chongym at cymulacrum.net> wrote:
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> ----- "David A. Bandel" <david.bandel at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Well, I have several VMs that start automagically at boot using
>> VirtualBox.  One linux server with 4 VMs (3 linux, one XP) has this
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> Hi David,
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> I'd be interested to know how you size the physical servers.

my minimums:
core 2-quad w/ min 8Gb RAM (1Gb min for each server plus 2 Gb for the
system).  The guests and hosts cannot share RAM, each gets their own.

I've also found VirtualBox runs better without the KVM modules, so I
turn that off.  Note to self:  recheck now, that was 2 years ago.

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> I have a server with 2 VMs that fall over each other on moderate loads.

Should not if each has sufficient resources.  Don't try this on a
memory-starved laptop running an Intel Atom.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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