On 3/2/2011 8:18 AM, Ari Constancio wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for advice on how to deploy VMs (mostly Windows) on demand > on our lab machines (hundreds). > > My basic idea is to have a minimal Linux system (local or remote with > PXE boot), the user to authenticate, and then to choose a VM to start > from a menu. VMs would be distributed from the network, unless it's > too much problematic. > > Any thoughts, caveats? > I recommend this well researched and benchmarked article on VMs. It only covers free VMs, but it clearly shows that they are not all equal, and depending upon what your usage is (I/O, memory, CPU, throughput vs latency, etc.) may strongly influence your VM decision.
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