If you are running virtual machines you pretty need a modern machine unless you are very patient. As you are looking at small form factor, be aware that Intel Atom based solutions do not have the hardware support that makes VMs practical. While technically you could get something working with para-virtualization, you really do not want to do this.
You also cannot run OSX Lion in a VM legally unless your host OS is also Lion running on actual Apple hardware. There are some other licencing constraints with OSX. For small form factor, look at uATX, something like this perhaps: http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/PID-BDL_A83850_F1A75M(ME).aspx For even smaller and lower powered you could try something like this: http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/PID-MX32502(ME).aspx Dual head is provided by most, even the integrated graphics solutions. Triple head pretty much requires an ATI (and only models with Eyefinity in their description). The multiple keyboards, mice and monitors has been done. In fact there is a local company who does this very thing (Linux based even). On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:29 PM, <t...@terralogic.net> wrote: > > I've looked at www.vfxweb.com and see cheap mobo's for like $26 bux with a > cpu. > > What would ppl suggest is a decent small form factor way to go which would be > able to run a virtual machine and in it run say OSX lion? > > I'd likely want to get some other OS's running as well... > > Multi head is necessary. > > One of the CLUG people asked about setting up a server with six (6) KB's and > six (6) mice not including the dead one in my garage and six (6) heads. > > I believe we can do this! Use USB mice and kb's and a couple PCI cards like > was in the shuttle-X I brought to the meeting. Should be easy. Next one of > our guys said we can output to a monitor via USB and I'd like to know how to > do that! > > I'm not sure this makes sense because a thin client should do this as well. > But who knows. I think the way it should work now is plug the KB, Mouse etc > into a flat panel and plug the network in and plug the server into the > network. Of course the network should be fiber. Fiber runs so fast that why > do we need AGP? > > We should be showing this at install fests. > > > > If anyone is interested one of my buddies just put in a 128 core machine. > > But they like winders. Uggh. > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
