[PLUG] Virtual Iron

alan alan at clueserver.org
Thu Oct 18 23:54:52 UTC 2007


On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Eric Wilhelm wrote:

> # from alan
> # on Thursday 18 October 2007 13:52:
>
>> I plan on buying an AMD64 dual core machine in the next couple of
>> months. I have yet to be able to figure out what of the AMD64
>> processors support the hardware virtualization.
>
> "In the next couple of months", you should be able to get a quad-core
> opteron with virtualization support (given that they "became available"
> almost a month ago.)

I can't afford an Opteron.  The cpu speeds on the Opteron are slow enough 
that I don't quite see the benefit.  Four 2000mhz processors v.s. two 
3000mhz processors at more than double the cost.

> The trick is finding a motherboard or any sort of information about
> them.  AMD seems to be doing a great job with press releases and
> absolutely sucking at publishing clear and easily accessible technical
> info (where said info can be easily correlated to a retail site from
> which a customer could perhaps purchase one or more CPUs and a
> motherboard.)  The press releases imply that I can easily get a
> dual-socket motherboard for some quad-core opteron CPUs and have me 8
> cores.  Google seems to think it is a unicorn though.  Links to
> known-to-work-with-linux setups would be great.

The motherboard I am looking at will do a single AM2 processor.

> Perhaps something with two x16 pci-express slots so that (several
> hundred more dollars later) an argument with the nvidia driver and/or
> X/beryl will answer whether or not 4-monitor xinerama with opengl is
> finally a reality?

The board I have been looking at will do that. (MSI K{something} Diamond 
board.)

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