Debian + KVM on IBM eServer x345?
Hello,
I have a bnch of x335 and x345 with Xeon CPUs of 2.4-3.0 GHz and all with 4GByte of memory.
Can you tell me, whether I can run KVM on it + 4-8 Debian guests guests?
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
Michelle Konzack
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Hello,
I have a bnch of x335 and x345 with Xeon CPUs of 2.4-3.0 GHz and all with 4GByte of memory.
IIRC not all of those machines contained CPUs with the necessary feature to run KVM; just run
egrep '(vmx|svm)' --color=always /proc/cpuinfo
and see if it (as it's an intel-based machine) gives you the 'vmx' back.
If not, no KVM. However, you can still run Xen (which I do on a bunch of x345's, very happily).
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Can you tell me, whether I can run KVM on it + 4-8 Debian guests guests?
If they do run KVM, depends on the workload. However, I'd get more memory (assuming CPU light tasks handled by the guests) to add.
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Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
Michelle Konzack
HTH,
Timo