I want to build an inexpensive system to learn and test out XEN. I need a processor for under $100. I''m planning on buying 1GB ram and maybe upgrading to 2GB in the future. Is anyone here using a sempron or celeron d with xen? Is it a really bad idea to use these low end processors? William _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Friday 10 March 2006 10:15, William wrote:> I want to build an inexpensive system to learn and test out XEN. I > need a processor for under $100. I''m planning on buying 1GB ram and > maybe upgrading to 2GB in the future. > Is anyone here using a sempron or celeron d with xen? Is it a really > bad idea to use these low end processors?I''m running Xen very successfully on an Athlon XP 2400+ with 1.5GB of PC2700 RAM. See http://www.shorewall.net/XenMyWay.html -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool Shoreline, \ http://shorewall.net Washington USA \ teastep@shorewall.net PGP Public Key \ https://lists.shorewall.net/teastep.pgp.key _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Tom Eastep wrote:> On Friday 10 March 2006 10:15, William wrote: > >> I want to build an inexpensive system to learn and test out XEN. I >> need a processor for under $100. I''m planning on buying 1GB ram and >> maybe upgrading to 2GB in the future. >> Is anyone here using a sempron or celeron d with xen? Is it a really >> bad idea to use these low end processors? > > > > I''m running Xen very successfully on an Athlon XP 2400+ with 1.5GB of PC2700 RAM. See http://www.shorewall.net/XenMyWay.htmlI''ll see that and lower you to a Celeron(Coppermine) 1GHz with 512Mb of memory and an old SiS board that runs Xen 2.0.7 and two virtual systems. I run Trac&SVN and SVN in two virtual systems with 128Mb each. Runs well enough (especially since until recently I hadn''t passed the swap space through - oops) except that the system seems to go to sleep after a while and when I want to use svn (which theoretically is waiting all the time) it doesn''t react until I give it an interrupt by SSH''ing into the machine. Probably a config var somewhere but I dunno where. Heck, this is almost like being a proper z/VM sysprog again! Just 30 years of maturity to go :-) -- Rod _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Sempron 2700 here with 1 gig of RAM on a uATX board with a samsung 80 gig drive. Just built it two days ago for around $400. Plenty of umph -- Jason The place where you made your stand never mattered, only that you were there... and still on your feet On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, William wrote:> I want to build an inexpensive system to learn and test out XEN. I need a > processor for under $100. I''m planning on buying 1GB ram and maybe upgrading > to 2GB in the future. > Is anyone here using a sempron or celeron d with xen? Is it a really bad idea > to use these low end processors? > > William > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users