KVM won't work as that processor doesn't have Intel VT. Paul On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 1:43 PM, greg wm <tclug1 at greatlakedata.com> wrote: > you may also want to consider KVM, blessed and chosen by rhel, available in > centos5.4, presumably compute intensive stuff run inside a VM under KVM is > essentially on the bare metal. > > > On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Randy Clarksean <rclarksean at arvig.net>wrote: > >> Thanks for the information - I will look at Xenserver ... I am assuming it >> is a bare metal approach? >> >> Your point is well taken about what I am doing and whether the approach is >> good or not. I need the box for two operating systems for computational >> work. I need to run a Windows flavor and I need to run Linux. There will >> be a performance hit, but based on what I have read, the hit is less for >> "bare metal" virtual approaches ... than it is for the situation where it >> runs within another platform. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Josh Welch [mailto:josh at joshwelch.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 9:26 AM >> To: Randy Clarksean; tclug-list >> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Hardware Question - 64 bit >> >> In order to install a 64 bit version of an operating system in ESXi >> (probably ESX too but I know this for a fact with ESXi) the processors >> need to have virtualization capabilities built in, Intel refers to it >> as VT and AMD uses AMD-V IIRC. The x850 stuff from Dell pre-dates >> virtualization capabilities being embedded in processors, or at least >> they didn't ship any of it in the x850 series. >> >> If you wanted to run virtual 64 bit linux instances on there you >> should be able to do so with XenServer or one of the other Linux based >> virtualization solutions. If you're looking to use it as a compute >> resource I'm not sure that virtualization is the right track for you >> to b following but there you go. >> >> Josh >> >> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Randy Clarksean <rclarksean at arvig.net> >> wrote: >> > Ok .. just purchased a used Dell PowerEdge 6850 on Ebay. 4 CPUs at 3.16 >> > GHz. I purchased it to make a computational box out of it ... wanting >> the >> 8 >> > cores and lots of memory. >> > >> > Now ... I put VMWare ESxi 4.0 on it and was installing a 64 bit version >> of >> > Scientific Linux. During the install ... it tells me that I can not >> install >> > a 64 bit version ... and that I should install a 32 bit version. >> > >> > The CPU details are listed below ... I THOUGHT these were 64 bit CPUs >> ... >> > did I mess up? >> > >> > 3.16GHZ INTEL XEON-MP 667MHZ SOCKET 604 1MB SL84U >> > >> > Thoughts and comments welcome. Thanks in advance. >> > >> > Randy >> > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20091223/ed339756/attachment.htm