On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Girish Venkatachalam <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Suresh Kumar <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I am involved in some  emulation application.
> >
> > I am looking for virtualization software (hypervisor - hardware &
> software
> > emulation) in linux. To emulate 50 nodes(customized linux kernel + my
> > network application).
> >
> > I understand that hypervisor is hardware arch specific.  So i will be
> using
> > intel arch (x86 based arch - latest dual core processor. ).
> > I thinking of using xen.
> > I have two queries.
> > 1) Any other alternate for xen which has very small footprint?
> > 2) Is it possible to emulate 50 nodes in latest x86 based desktop/server?
> >
>
> 50 nodes? That is one too many.
>
> Calculate at the rate of 128MB per instance.
>
> I always use qemu.
>
> -Girish
>
>
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I am also having a dual core intel processor. Does your processor support
Intel VT? If yes it is better to assume 256 MB per instance and 15% CPU
usage per instance (average use case). Then you can calculate the number of
nodes you wish to use.
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