Hi folks, At work we're looking at server virtualization, both to give us a bit more redundancy against hardware failure and also to try and cut down on our power requirements a bit by getting shot of some older servers (P3, early P4's).
Now we already have two IBM x Series servers which are going on about 4 years old. The idea is to maybe replace these with something a bit newer and then re-use them for less mission critical uses. These servers have the old P4 based Xeons in them running at 3GHz. According to Intel's web site they don't support Intel-VT technology but they are 64-Bit capable (IIRC they support EM64T). In the past I've played around with VMWare Server running on top of Linux (and Windows), in fact at home I have it running happy on my server with a couple of VM's chugging away. What I'd like to do though is use some bare metal virtualization. I gather the newer virtualization software such as Microsoft Hyper-V, VMWare ESXi and KVM all require Intel-VT technology or AMD-V. I wondered if anyone knew of any bare metal virtualization software that supports the older CPUs? I'm pretty certain an older version of ESXi did although when I last tried it a couple of years back it didn't support the hardware I tried it on (a bog standard Phenom X4 desktop PC). I can't for the life of me find a download link for the older ESXi software (which I believe VMWare were starting to give away). So before I give up, does anyone know of anything that would be suitable which doesn't require Intel-VT or AMD-V? Ta, Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
