Hi, I have a desktop with "AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800" ( http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1526472&csid=ITD&body=MAIN#detailspecs). I wanted to check if I can get Xen up and running on this host. Is this processor something that I can attempt to install Xen on? Or should I be looking at upgrading it to a higher processor? Thanks, Parik _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 11:26 -0800, Parik Pol wrote:> Hi, > I have a desktop with "AMD Athlon 64 X2 > 3800" ( http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1526472&csid=ITD&body=MAIN#detailspecs ). I wanted to check if I can get Xen up and running on this host. Is this processor something that I can attempt to install Xen on? Or should I be looking at upgrading it to a higher processor? > Thanks, > ParikI believe this processor has hardware virtualization support so you should be alright for HVM (it will already do PV). The clock speed is 2GHz so the performance will be alright for the most part. What do you plan to use it for? Eg. Guest type and number of guests? _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
I was thinking of two guest OS. One of them I am thinking of Ubuntu. Can I have windows as one of the guest OS on Xen? Thanks, -Parik On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Tait Clarridge <tait@clarridge.ca> wrote:> On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 11:26 -0800, Parik Pol wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a desktop with "AMD Athlon 64 X2 > > 3800" ( > http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1526472&csid=ITD&body=MAIN#detailspecs). I wanted to check if I can get Xen up and running on this host. Is this > processor something that I can attempt to install Xen on? Or should I be > looking at upgrading it to a higher processor? > > Thanks, > > Parik > > I believe this processor has hardware virtualization support so you > should be alright for HVM (it will already do PV). The clock speed is > 2GHz so the performance will be alright for the most part. > > What do you plan to use it for? Eg. Guest type and number of guests? > > >_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On 11/30/2009 2:26 PM, Parik Pol wrote: > Hi, > I have a desktop with "AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800" ( > http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1526472&csid=ITD&body=MAIN#detailspecs > <http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1526472&csid=ITD&body=MAIN#detailspecs> > ). I wanted to check if I can get Xen up and running on this host. Is > this processor something that I can attempt to install Xen on? Or should > I be looking at upgrading it to a higher processor? For PV guests it doesn''t matter. For HVM guests, the CPU has to support it (and it may need to be enabled in the BIOS). You should find the following flags in the /proc/cpuinfo output if your CPU supports hardware virtualization. cat /proc/cpuinfo Intel: vmx AMD: svm The other rule of thumb is that all Socket F Opterons support HVM and all AM2/AM3 Athlon64s support HVM. The old socket 939/940 chips generally did not support HVM. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 12:08 -0800, Parik Pol wrote:> I was thinking of two guest OS. One of them I am thinking of Ubuntu. > Can I have windows as one of the guest OS on Xen? > Thanks, > -ParikYeah, that will work for sure. That CPU does have the svm flag (as another poster suggested looking for), so you can create your Ubuntu guest as well as have a Windows guest running. As long as you have a good amount of RAM you will be alright. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
The 939 athlon x2 does not support hardware virt, howver the AM2 athlon x2 does support it ... There are two Athlon 64 X2 3800+ out there, with different flags, but same specs and process size. No idea why AMD did things that way. Gordon _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users