Re: Virtualisation

[Ben McCormack <yahoogroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have also started to go done the virtualization route.

I run a Apple Mac setup at home and have a last gen mac mini with 2Gb
of ram for File Serving, Torrent downloading and Sonos.

I have been looking at Homeseer and needed to run this on a windows
machine. So I use Parallels to run Win XP with Homeseer, cbus and
Comfort software. I thought only having 2GB of RAM would be an issue
but it has worked well so far.

Hope this helps someone

Ben



On 30 Apr 2009, at  19:53, Martyn Wendon wrote:

> Having just replaced my main desktop pc (P4 3.8 of 4 years vintage)
> and 21"
> CRT monitors with a modern decent laptop and a couple of LCD
> screens, I was
> surprised at just how much my electricity usage has dropped (from
> baseline
> of 2.2KWh to 1.7KWh)!
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> So now I'm on an electricity economy drive and figure that the next
> thing to
> look at is potentially virtualising some or all of the various
> servers here.
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> Currently I'm running:
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> Shadow IDS (3 nics)
> Trixbox PBX (no extra hardware as all phones are IP)
> Windows SBS / Exchange / DC / etc (2 nics)
> Zoneminder (16 ch capture card)
> HA server (loads of serial ports on pci cards)
> Media server (bluetooth dongle, tv capture cards)
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> All on separate machines, mainly P4s of 3-4 years vintage.
>
> I know that some of you have followed a similar route so I'm seeking
> advice
> / ideas / gotchas and general information / success (!) stories,
> especially
> in how to make hardware such as capture cards available to a virtual
> machine?
>
> Cheers,
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> Martyn
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