Mike Marion wrote:
1. Ability to migrate running processes if needed. When you've got jobs that can run for days if not weeks, this can be a huge gain.
I use this regularly. I recently decided that the power supplies in my cpu servers just didn't leave enough margin for safety and were getting too hot and therefore more likely to fail. So I migrated the vm's off of each machine replacing the power supply as I went and then migrating the vm's back. Nobody knew that all of the cpu's just had a power cycle.
4. Possibly replacing most desktops with thin clients (I personally think NX is the best choice, and there are clients for it for at least
I am looking at this also. I've been playing with NX off and on for the last year or so. Does LTSP have NX integrated yet? I know they were working on it a while back.
Mostly thinking paravirt vs full virt at this point.
Definitely. The performance hit with paravirt is small enough to be negligible for all of my applications.
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