[PLUG] Virtual Iron
Roderick A. Anderson
raanders at acm.org
Fri Oct 19 14:07:47 UTC 2007
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> Rich Shepard wrote:
>> On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, m0gely wrote:
>>
>>> VM doesn't mean that. I can't recall ATM, but I know VM is typically used
>>> on most of their smaller footprint motherboards over the years. I belive
>>> the "M" is for Micro-ATX. The V could be for onboard video. I realize
>>> this wouldn't be consistent designating across their line up but ASUS has
>>> never been good about that and I've used them for years.
>> Oh. Well, anyway, it does support virtualization and that was the
>> question. I could not care less what the letters mean on any system board's
>> name, regardless of manufacturer. :-)
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Rich
>>
>
> While we're on the subject, there are now quite a few different ways one
> can virtualize. Does anyone know which ones even require this option and
> what it does for them? As far as I know:
>
> 1. VMware Workstation 6 (Linux host) doesn't require it and may not even
> use it.
> 2. Xen requires it only if you want to run unmodified kernels as guests,
> and if you want to run Linux guests, the Xen-modified guest kernels have
> higher performance than unmodified ones.
> 3. KVM requires it.
>
> Anybody else know more/disagree, etc.?
Linux-Vserver (www.linux-vserver.org) doesn't. But it only supports
Linux in the guests. There was some discussion about running VMware
inside a guest.
Rod
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