Text 9809, 54 rader
Skriven 2006-02-15 15:21:04 av Robert Comer (1:379/45)
   Kommentar till text 9808 av Adam (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: A Billion PC can't can run Vista Glass
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From: "Robert Comer" <bobcomer_removeme@mindspring.com>

> How do VM'es play with product activation etc? Can you use the VM into
> fooling the OS into thinking you're always got the same h/w?

You're not really fooling it, you do have the same hardware from the VM's
standpoint -- all except the CPU and whatever you might change, like amount of
RAM and how many NIC's.  You still have to worry about being properly licensed
though...

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Bob Comer


"Adam" <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"@the field.near the bridge"> wrote in
message news:43f3887d$1@w3.nls.net...
> Robert Comer wrote:
>>>How well do VM an VPC run on your average whitebox P4 or Athlon with <1MB
>>>of cache?  I'm thinking really lightly loaded application servers with 2G
>>>RAM, and essentially one app per image.
>>
>>
>> It depends on the OS you're going to use on the host and guest, and if
>> it's
>> server types, I'd run Virtual Server R2 instead, it's cheaper and
>> targeted
>> for server apps.  Lightly loaded a cheapie P4 or Athlon will do just fine
>> if
>> you have enough RAM to run your images and not cause the host to swap too
>> much.
>>
>>
>>>I.e., for sanity, do you absolutely *have* to have a dualie/dual-core for
>>>this?  Absolutely *have* to have a Xeon/Opteron?  Should have?
>>
>>
>> Definitely not, but as the usage goes up you're going to want to scale
>> the
>> hardware up too.
>>
>> My next machine is probably going to be a dualie, and with either Intel's
>> VT
>> architecture, or AMD's version of the same. (called Pacifica).  The Intel
>> 9xx dualies are the cheapest that we can get so far...
>>
>
> How do VM'es play with product activation etc? Can you use the VM into
> fooling the OS into thinking you're always got the same h/w?
>
>
> Adam

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