[wellylug] Xen and Windows

[William Hamilton]

2009/8/17 Peter Lambrechtsen <plambrechtsen at gmail.com>

> On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 9:33 PM, William Hamilton <
> william.hamilton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am looking at putting some time into Xen as a couple of clients are
>> making noises about virtualisation blah blah.  Having had a quick read I see
>> that Windows is not greatly supported unless the processor has
>> virtualisation built in.
>> Anyone here doing a mix of Linux/Windows on Xen? (one particular client
>> has a Windows app they cannot get rid of at this stage).  Any recomendations
>> on hardware?  A number of my boxes are SuperMicro 1U and 2U which I have had
>> good experiences with.
>>
>>
> I installed a few XEN VM's on a Intel blade system running SLES at 3
> schools in wellington.  One of them have a 6 Blade IBM Enclosure, another
> has a 2 blade, the last just has a Intel no-name 1U server which has a Xeon
> VT CPU in it.  They run windows just fine as they all are VT cpus.  There is
> the Novell windows drivers which you can download for free which speeds
> things up a lot in the VM from the Novell site, if you want the Windows
> signed versions you need to pay Novell for them, but the unsigned ones work
> fine for me.
>
> I still prefer VMWare Server, but we put in a 6 node cluster, all runnins
> XEN with OCFS for the filesystem, and with 8 SLES Linux VM Guests, since all
> of the boxes supported VT, it made sense to also load 2 Windows guests on
> them as well.
>
> If the servers you have are not Intel Xeon server class CPUs or don't
> support VT or the AMD equliviant Hyper-V then VMWare server / ESXi is the
> way to go.  Or you could go down the Virtual Box path.
>
> Thanks
>
> Peter
>
> Thanks for this everything - much clearer now. .  Peter sounds like you
have done what I was looking at..  seems like it could be a goer.

cheers

W


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