Only just recently have I gotten into virtualization and golly gee, I think it's swell!
I rebuilt my personal computer as a low power / quiet system in a slim case. I don't do any gaming so I just needed something that could play high quality H.264 videos without a hitch. I also consolidated several systems into one quad core computer w/4gb of ram. I've got all sorts of VM's on it such as Win2003 Server, CentOS, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, Win2K Pro, etc. Primarily it acts as a file server with 2TB (5x500gb RAID 5) storage space. I have Asterisk running on the host OS so it can handle the telephony card that is installed and connected to my POTS lines. I utilize the different vm's for various tasks like testing apps and operating systems, ripping/encoding, file sharing, music&video streaming, network backups, etc. I can connect to the various VM's from my pc or laptop using Remote Desktop or VNC. Since it resides in my wiring closet on the opposite end of the house I don't hear the slightest sound of a hard drive clicking or a fan whirring :) -Tharin O. Brian Weeden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was actually thinking about the virtualization comment from Tharin. I use XP mainly because of gaming. I have Ubuntu on my laptop and much prefer it for your daily office/internet/stuff usage but of course gaming sucks. And I would really prefer to use OSX for my video work because the tools are just easier to use and interface better. Has anyone built a virtualization box? Meaning, it should be possible to have 3 OS images (XP, Linux, OSX) and just moving between the three as you see fit. Now that I could see needing a quadcore and about 4GB of RAM. Aside from I/O becoming your chokepoint, anything else I'm not thinking about that would prevent such a setup from running? -- Brian Weeden On 11/7/07, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: > that looks like a fine board to me...core 2 quad is your ticket... > > we seem to have very similar needs in a PC. > > Brian Weeden wrote: > > Right now I'm playing Orange Box (friggin AWESOME), Bioshock (when it > > doesn't crash), Civ 4, and AOE 3. I'm mainly an RTS / strategy gamer > > but do grab the occasional FPS but only the ones with good first > > person as I don't get into the multiplayer shooters much. > > > > For mobo I was looking at the ASUS P5K-E/WIFI-AP > > http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16813131196 > > > > Dual video cards is not something I plan on doing anytime soon but > > onboard USB, Fireware, LAN, and audio is. > > > > >
