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Re: Lab OS Choices
From: Benjamin Anderson <hawklan () iastate edu>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:48:39 -0500
We have had great performance out of Xen. In the Xen Worlds project we have had a (now 3-year-old) Dell Dimension desktop with 2GB of RAM serving 30 virtual machines. The virtual machines weren't doing that much work, or generating much network traffic, but you should still manage a decent number of VMs under a moderate load.
A paper on Xen Worlds, that includes some performance results from running expect scripts can be found at: http://home.eng.iastate.edu/ ~hawklan/xenWorldsAsee.pdf
- Ben On Aug 15, 2007, at 4:28 PM, M.B.Jr. wrote:
On 8/11/07, Shaon Diwakar <shaon.diwakar () yahoo com au> wrote:Hi Peter,This issue has been discussed on the list a few times, so you might find some great advice from looking in the archives as well...I would recommend having a base desktop build with what ever OS you are comfortable (GNU/Linux, Windows or even MacOSX) and using VMWare Server or Parallels images.In case one decide himself for a virtual lab, he must mind his machine's hardware. VMware's products (and even Xen) are not kid's play. Best -- Marcio Barbado, Jr. ============== ==============---------------------------------------------------------------------- --This list is sponsored by: Cenzic Need to secure your web apps NOW? Cenzic finds more, "real" vulnerabilities fast. Click to try it, buy it or download a solution FREE today! http://www.cenzic.com/downloads---------------------------------------------------------------------- --
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- Re: Lab OS Choices, (continued)
- Re: Lab OS Choices Pete Herzog (Aug 16)
- Re: Lab OS Choices Peter Manis (Aug 15)
- Re: Lab OS Choices Pete Herzog (Aug 16)
- Re: Lab OS Choices Peter Manis (Aug 16)
- Re: Lab OS Choices Pete Herzog (Aug 17)
- Re: Lab OS Choices M . B . Jr . (Aug 17)
- Re: Lab OS Choices Peter Manis (Aug 12)
- Re: Lab OS Choices M . B . Jr . (Aug 15)
- Re: Lab OS Choices Benjamin Anderson (Aug 15)
- Re: Lab OS Choices Peter Manis (Aug 13)
- Re: Lab OS Choices Jan Heisterkamp (Aug 17)