Virtualization Question ...

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 10:03 AM, 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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>> 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.
>
> Ah! My server has 3Gb RAM and a Pentium4 (Hyperthreaded, not multicore)
>
> Running Apache in one VM and Postfix+Java App in other VM.
>
> I guess I need to get a more powerful CPU, huh?

Depends on where the resource contention is.  I'd guess based on your
usage patterns that they're CPU bound, but it might be RAM.

My VM servers are used primarily as build environments, and hit the
CPU, RAM & disk all hard.  They're all sitting on top of an 8 disk
RAID5 array, with 48GB RAM and 4 8core CPUs.



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