I am thinking about building a development/test server that we need here to test our application. This application needs to be tested on a variety of platforms in all kinds of different component combinations requiring at least 10-15 easily managable, re-creatable environments. We have already decided to use vmware images to set up all the test environments with the host OS OBSD. I was able to get vmware workstation working on OBSD with few tweaks so I am pretty set on using that. Performance is not really an issue here because testing will be strictly functional although server will be equiped with ample memory and fast storage. Questions is:
1. Will such server significantly benefit from multiple processors where most applications are not threaded but rather separate processes (vmware images)? I am thinking of going with a socket 939 motheboard and Athlon64 so that it will be possibe to upgrade to Athlon64 X2 dual core when it comes out in few months and switch to MP kernel if necessary although my feeling is single cpu will suffice. Any feedback, experiences are much appreciated. Cheers, Mikhail.
