2009-08-19, 02:43
20 years ago I had a new cutting edge system every 3 months but lack of money and also the quite decent Pentium 3.2 GHz slimPC I haven't replaced my desktop system for over 3 years...
My Xbox with XBMC is still the centre of my Home Theater together with a 42" plasma and a Yamaha DTS amplifier.
I'm now thinking of building a HTPC but I definitely want it to do more than that. I also want it to run some Virtual machines which are currently running on a 2nd Pentium III system.....
I still don't know which OS I should run as the base system. I could run a desktop Linux with vmware and some virtual machines running win32 and linux the background or a Windows XP/Vista with vmware.
I'm a bit scared this virtualization will make it impossible to use hardware accellerated video hardware.
I recently had my holidays and when I came back at work my colleague showed me 2 Xenservers which replaced 2 vmware-machines. The performance was quite impressive and much faster than vmware. The most impressive part was a live migration: My system was attached to a Virtual Windows XP-machine using RDP. This Virtual machine was then moved from 1 Xenserver to the other Xenserver and you didn't even notice anything in this RDP-session...
Because this HTPC will have the latest technology which is needed for Xenserver I could run that as a base and have the other machines run on top of that....
Is there anyone here using this already or tried it
My Xbox with XBMC is still the centre of my Home Theater together with a 42" plasma and a Yamaha DTS amplifier.
I'm now thinking of building a HTPC but I definitely want it to do more than that. I also want it to run some Virtual machines which are currently running on a 2nd Pentium III system.....
I still don't know which OS I should run as the base system. I could run a desktop Linux with vmware and some virtual machines running win32 and linux the background or a Windows XP/Vista with vmware.
I'm a bit scared this virtualization will make it impossible to use hardware accellerated video hardware.
I recently had my holidays and when I came back at work my colleague showed me 2 Xenservers which replaced 2 vmware-machines. The performance was quite impressive and much faster than vmware. The most impressive part was a live migration: My system was attached to a Virtual Windows XP-machine using RDP. This Virtual machine was then moved from 1 Xenserver to the other Xenserver and you didn't even notice anything in this RDP-session...
Because this HTPC will have the latest technology which is needed for Xenserver I could run that as a base and have the other machines run on top of that....
Is there anyone here using this already or tried it
