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Re: [Xen-users] AMD ATHLON 64 X2 5200+ AM2 and Supermicro H8SMA-2 A64/Opteron a good choice?

To: Peter Peltonen <peter.peltonen@xxxxxxxxx>

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx>

Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 10:39:47 +0000

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Peter Peltonen wrote:

I planning to build a xen server with 8GB of memory  (say 15 virtual
machines with 512 megs of memory) and a processor that has  hardware
support for Xen.

Should these work okay, any opinions?

- Processor: AMD ATHLON 64 X2 5200+ AM2

- Motherboard: Supermicro H8SMA-2 A64/Opteron
 http://supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron1000/MCP55/H8SMA-2.cfm

Will one dual core processor handle the load (the virtual machines
will be mostly dedicated web servers with not that heavy CPU load) or
should I consider multiple Opteron processors or something else?

I bet it will: are you using pre-built kernels, or building your own?

Fedora Core 6 and the new RHEL5 beta seem quite sweet for this.

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