>> Example Hyper-V docs: >> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee405267(WS.10).aspx > > Thanks for the link - I tried to find such docs for Hyper-V (and others) a > while ago and failed...
Ohh... here is one for VMware vSphere ESXi 4.1: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r41/vsp_41_config_max.pdf (I was unable to find official docs for VMware Workstation, but some forum users say that VMware Workstation 6 quacks after 27 VMs -- no data on WS 7.1 or WS 8 BETA, and no data on Microsoft VirtualPC either) > > For hosted products it's difficult to document the details, as some OS > settings which determine the maximum number of VMs may be different in each > distribution/installation... what makes it worse is that VirtualBox is > available for many platforms. We can provide in footnotes a link (inside our docs, that says how-to change limit of the average distro.) Say like this: *** Number of concurrently running virtual machines: 8192 VMs (Linux 64-bit) [1] [1] Since we are a hosted hypervisor (type 2 VMM), different versions of host OS can affect this limit, but here is the rough idea how to configure your host OS properly. [link-to-Chapter 9. Advanced topics] (plus we must write some docs on how to configure common cases, such as semaphores, open files, etc...) >Right now you have way too many "Linux" > restrictions in your draft. This is because I am not too familiar with other Host OS'es limits very much... how about running VirtualBox on Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter ? or Mac OS X ? (Mac looks to have a lot more limits, if VBox 4.0.6 could not make it past 16 cores) > Overall it's a good idea, especially as the really hard limits are usually > much higher than any competitor. Yes, I was kinda shocked to learn it... because VirtualBox originally started like 100% desktop virtualizer, like VirtualPC. -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
