Good systems that are available is a question. We prefer using Intel versus AMD and we've custom-built our servers and about half of our workstations. What was not custom-built were Dells, which would be my second recommendation. We do also build custom-built machines--servers and workstations--as well. Please contact us if you would like to know about us or click on the link below. Thank you. http://www.covenantdata.com Where data becomes information! Robert Williams Programmer / Web Developer / Network Administrator Covenant Data Systems, Inc. http://www.covenantdata.com rwilliams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 1:05 PM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: hardware guidence On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 12:57:32PM -0400, Tom Greaser wrote: > Im looking at getting a developement workstation to > work with XEN. Im looking at a dual AMD 64 box.. > > Anyone know of any good already put together systems out there.. > Thanks.. > > PS.. if you think Intel is the way to go.. I will listen but, from what > ive read > about HyperTransport.. thats what i should do for XEN type stuff.. At the Summit, the presenters (one from Red Hat, one from Intel) were showing off Xen on an Intel chip with VT support. With this support, you can install unmodified clients in Xen. I just did a quick search on Intel's web site and came up with this describing the technology: http://www.intel.com/cd/ids/developer/asmo-na/eng/221962.htm http://cache-www.intel.com/cd/00/00/22/19/221961_221961.pdf Although I do like AMD CPUs, Intel, seems to be a key contributor to the Xen technology with about 30 developers dedicated to the project (according to their keynote at the Summit). I don't know what the availability of the VT technology is, but it seems to me that if your goal is just Xen, this is worthwhile looking at. On the other hand, if you only have Fedora guests on your server, then an AMD processor will work - pretty much evertyhing else needs a change to the guest OS to boot. You should know that 64-bit support isn't in Xen yet. It's only the 32-bit stuff that sort of works some of the time today. See also http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/virtualization/. The right list to discuss virtualization is fedore-devel-list. -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
