I've used VMWare. It has some significant flaws, I would not recommend it for much of anything.
Sun recently released VirtualBox 2.0.2 - I'm was using 1.6.4, and am upgrading as we speak. Then I'm going to run my hl1mp:source server in it just to see how it performs. I'll post results here after a bit.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Never" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:09 AM Subject: Re: [hlds] HLDS Consumption Think that virtualization is one of the most quick growing technology. Also, my provider does not use VMWare... They use XEN, it has a significant difference in performance because it uses a modified linux kernel to work, and it get virtual machines closer to the hardware than any other virtualization system... I will give it a try... They are offering me a free month to test it, and i will choose the most expensive plan, with high CPU priority (Its a powerfull Xeon Quad Core), 2GB ram, 300 GB Monthly transference, 4 Mbit national and 4 Mbit international bandwidth, and 150 GB hard disk that i wont use. If it works i will find some way to pay it... Maybe selling the free disk space to somewone who wants to resell webhosting... I will try to host 4 or 5 gameservers there, if it works fine you will be the first i'll tell :). Anyway, its free for 1 month :D Thanks Germán Midnight escribió: > From the Datacenter's perspective, they generally oversell the hardware > that runs the Virtual (VPS) servers, meaning they do not anticipate each > of those VPS instances to use gobs of CPU as they would if running any > game servers. I have seen several Datacenters that state plainly in > their terms of service that if your VPS is using more than its fair > share of CPU power they will ask you to upgrade to a dedicated box. > Your provider may differ on this but that's a general rule of thumb that > I have seen. You might want to tell them what you will be running on it > and see what they say before going with it and finding out later they > are pulling the plug on your servers. > > While it is possible to run servers on a Vitual machine setup, you will > use more CPU and get less performance out of a VPS. If you think of a > VPS as like 1/2 to 1/3 the power of a low end Celeron dedicated box, > that's probably the amount of load you would want to run on it at > maximum, otherwise you might as well be on a dedicated server. Granted > these VPS's can span multiple high end CPUs but they are not really > intended to utilize them all on a consistent basis. > > I can't talk to Linux VPS's but I once ran 2 VMWare server instances on > Windows. (When UT3 came out it would only install on XP so that is what > we had to use at the time). Each instance of VMWare had one UT3 server > installed with the number of player slots not too large (10-16) and used > about 35% of a Core2 Duo 6600, so you could only really run 2 of them on > that dedicated box. Without VMWare you could run about 10 game servers > on that hardware no problem. (Less if you are talking high FPS servers > such as 500-1000FPS CSS servers.) I really would not recommend that on > a Virtual server, high end dedicated boxes have a hard enough time > keeping up with those rates. If you want to run lower speed 33 tick > 100FPS settings then you might be able to get away with it, but it is > not really the recommended way to go. > > I will look forward to see what Saint K has to say, feel free to > surprise us. > > > > Saint K. wrote: > >> I can shed some light on that after the weekend. >> >> Cheers, >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve >> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 12:13 AM >> To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list >> Subject: Re: [hlds] HLDS Consumption >> >> There was a discussion about this not too long ago. the general consensus >> was that virtual servers were not a good choice to run game servers on. >> >> I know Saint K was going to do some testing in a VS and post some numbers >> but we haven't heard back from him yet. >> >> >> >> >>> They offered me a virtual server... Will it work? >>> They said me that i can test the server 30 days free... >>> But i think it will not work... ¿What do you think? >>> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: >>> >>> >>>> Did you get hit by their huge fire before? >>>> >>>> @never: that does sound sucky. I have quite a few SA friends so I've >>>> heard how tough it is in places. Wishing u luck. >>>> Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Robert Whelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>> >>>> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 12:54:41 >>>> To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing >>>> list<[email protected]> >>>> Subject: Re: [hlds] HLDS Consumption >>>> >>>> >>>> dunno what your idea of expensive is though I hate paying the middle >>>> man >>>> (gamehosting services). 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