Thanks Criggie On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 9:12 PM, criggie <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Looking for an idiot proof way install Linux Mint on Windows > > System attached below > > Your options: > 1* two separate computers Honestly - this is the most idiot proof. > 2* set your computer to run some kind of VM environment > 3* dedicate a server machine to running VMs > 4* Amazon > > > > Option 1 - Two separate computers. Its pretty easy conceptually. You > need two computers, good enough for what you want to do with them. > You can reduce your monitor and keyboard clutter by buying a KVM switch, > or just use all the monitors! I run a software tool called Synergy > that works like an antiKVM, sharing my keyboard and mouse across three > separate machines with five monitors total. > > > > Option 2 - VM environment > In linux that'll be KVM probably, so you can use the Host OS as a > regular linux box and have any number of other VMs running as > clients/guest machines. > > If you do more work in windows, then hyper-v is included with 64 bit > versions of windows 8 and windows 10 professional or ultimate. If you > run a lower/lesser/home version then there's an upgrade cost. > Probably other solutions exist as well. > > I've used both approaches successfully, with a linux host at home and a > win10 host at work. > > Remember the guest OS has less access to the hardware, so if your > purpose for windows is to run games, then make it the Host OS and run > one or more linux machines as guests. Likewise, PCI or USB passthrough > is a bit odd, so choose accordingly. > > Memory - you need enough real memory to allow all your VMs plus the Host > OS to run with minimal swapping to disk - ideally none. > > > > Option 3 - Find a server-class box with plenty of memory and look at > running one of the dedicated VM servers. The host OS is much reduced > and probably has no more than ssh and some kind of control application. > I've worked a heap with citrix xenserver, but there are others as well. > Same comments about memory, and its even more of a "all your eggs in one > basket" scenario. But build it with redundant drives at a minimum and > you're on track. Xenserver also supports pools, so you can have > multiple servers sharing the load, and VMs can move from one to another > host with zero downtime. > > > Option 4 - how deep are your pockets? Amazon will let you run an EC2 > "instance" for a dollar figure per hour, with specs of your choosing. > > Read the full pricing at https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ > but you can have this for free each month for a year: > 750 hours of EC2 running Linux, RHEL, or SLES t2.micro instance usage > 750 hours of EC2 running Microsoft Windows Server t2.micro instance usage > 750 hours of Elastic Load Balancing plus 15 GB data processing > 30 GB of Amazon Elastic Block Storage in any combination of General > Purpose (SSD) or Magnetic, plus 2 million I/Os (with Magnetic) and 1 GB > of snapshot storage > 15 GB of bandwidth out aggregated across all AWS services > 1 GB of Regional Data Transfer > > After that, t2.micro costs 2 US cents/hour for linux on demand or > 2.2 US cents/hour for windows. > A t2.micro has 1 GB of ram, and disk costs 12 USc/month for a GB of > storage on "SSD". > > Downsides > - its not in your vicinity, Prices above are based on Sydney which is > closest to us. > - a t2.micro costs $180 US per year, and 30 GB of disk costs another > $44. So you're looking at $250 US/year minimum to run this tiny host. > - the first hit is free.... the free tier is to get you on board. > - If you want more resources, you pay for it. Costs grow linearly, so > double the ram and double the CPU cores is roughly double the price. > An x1.32xlarge has 128 CPU cores, 1.9 TB ram, 2x 1.9TB SSD, and costs > $25.23/hour. Thats $18k per month or $225k per year. For that, you can > buy a jolly nice server and pay for power, cooling, and fat internet at > home, or host it in a physical DC. > > > That's my list contribution for 2016! > > > > -- > Criggie > > http://criggie.org.nz/ > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > -- Dave Merrick Daves Web Designs Website http://www.daveswebdesigns.co.nz/ Email [email protected] Ph 03 216 2053 Cell 027 3089 169
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