[TriLUG] Need opinions for specs of a VM box

[OlsonE at aosa.army.mil]

Yeah, 4gb. Upgradable to 8. I think I'll be okay with 4 ...for now. 

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of David McDowell
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 8:55 AM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Need opinions for specs of a VM box

I'm running a P4 3.2 w/ 2GB ram, boot drive on 7200 RPM IDE, free VMware
server guests on a 160GB SATA.  Host OS is CentOS 4.5, guests are CentOS
4.5 and WinXP, just 1 of each and it runs fine.  Be aware, I have found
that VMware's implementation of bridged networking in VMware Server
1.0.3 using an XP guest has some flaws.  I am unable to use work's SSL
VPN full client.  I can use the basic web connect, but not the full (as
if I was at my desk at the office) client.  Funny enough, to my pleasant
surprise, my XP VM in Parallels on my macbook worked perfectly for that.

Good luck, that's one helluva machine for home.  That was 4GB of ram
total right?  For comparison, at work for VMware ESX 3.01 we have 2 Dell
2950, 2 x quad core Xeon for 8 total cores, 16GB ram, 6 x 300GB SAS (5
in RAID 5 w/ 1 hot spare).  It works great.

David



On 7/26/07, OlsonE at aosa.army.mil <OlsonE at aosa.army.mil> wrote:
> Hahahaha. Yeah, its mostly for testing things out  ...however it'll 
> also be my uber-gaming rig!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On 
> Behalf Of Lee
> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 8:47 AM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Need opinions for specs of a VM box
>
> This is for a testing lab? What are you going to be testing? The 
> latest computer games? :D -Lee
>
> On Jul 26, 2007, at 8:08 AM, OlsonE at aosa.army.mil wrote:
>
> > I'm actually building a server just for this purpose. It's going to
> > house:
> >
> > Processor: Intel Quad Core Q6600 G0 stepping (cooled by a 
> > Thermalright
>
> > Ultra-120 eXtreme w/120mm fan)
> > Motherboard: EVGA 122-CK-NF68-A1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI 
> > Video
> > Card: EVGA 768-P2-N881-AR GeForce 8800 Ultra 768MB GDDR3 PCI Express
> > x16 HDCP Power Supply: Silverstone ST75F (modular) 750w
> > CD/DVD: Sony NEC Optiarc 18X DVD+/-R DVD Burner with 12x DVD-RAM 
> > SATA
> > RAM: OCZ (2x 1gb) DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel (SLI) - x2
> >
> > ...obviously, I'm not on a budget... but I think this box will 
> > definitely foot the bill for what I'm trying to do. (I'm building a 
> > Linux and Windows testing lab).
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] 
> > On Behalf Of wayy2be
> > Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 8:04 AM
> > To: trilug at trilug.org
> > Subject: [TriLUG] Need opinions for specs of a VM box
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> >   I am wanting to purchase a desktop for my home that will be able 
> > to handle running 4 or more VM's so that I can set up a network and 
> > do labs. Which route would be the best to go in terms of ram, hd 
> > space etc.
> > I need help with the specs.  Thanks,
> >
> >   Rob
> >
> >
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