<p>The base hardware for my main rig was about $300 plus hard disks (currently at 5... I just can't stop buying them!). My Athlon 7750x2 ran guests on my Win 7 / Ubuntu hosts with the only issue being hard disk bottle necking during boot or heavy IO. I use VirtualBox with AMD-v enabled.</p>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 10, 2011 3:55 PM, "Rae Yip" <<a href="mailto:rae.yip@gmail.com">rae.yip@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> Matt Campbell has looked into a fair bit of this, though he settled on<br>
> using VirtualBox.<br>> <br>> As mentioned in the WP article, there are a couple different<br>> chipset/BIOS support features that assist with virtualization. It's a<br>> fairly tricky support matrix, but there's a lot you can do without<br>
> hardware support depending on what you're after, so it helps to have a<br>> firm direction in mind be for plunking down a few grand in hardware.<br>> <br>> -Rae.<br>> <br>> On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 1:35 PM, matti <<a href="mailto:mathew_2000@yahoo.com">mathew_2000@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>>> Hi,<br>>><br>>> I am looking at playing around with XEN and<br>>> read documentation that the BIOS should support<br>>> it. ( I have a nice AMD chip for this.. )<br>>><br>
>> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD-V#AMD_virtualization_.28AMD-V.29">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD-V#AMD_virtualization_.28AMD-V.29</a><br>>> "Chipset<br>>><br>>> Memory and I/O virtualization is performed by the chipset.[29] Typically, if the BIOS doesn't enable these features, then virtualization software can't use them, which is a common problem."<br>
>><br>>> Anyone have any experience with this?<br>>><br>>> I am still looking to see which MB/chipset would support Xen,<br>>> and attempting to find a list of chipsets which work with<br>>> this.<br>
>><br>>> Thanks<br>>> matti<br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>><br></div>