Re: VM Recomendations

["Paul" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I didn't think any of them apssed through serial reports but then I
could be wrong and confusing it with the fact that Idratek won't work with
a virtual serial port.

I think all VM's can pass-through HDD as RAW to the virtual machine
certianly ESX and Hyper-V do.

As for USB I'm sure Hyper-V can and ESX can't but then I don't tend to play
with this stuff everyday.

At home I have a Quad core with 6GB of RAM which is using W2K8R2 64bit
allowing me to run Tversity and GB-PVR. The later then gets to access a
couple of PCI and Firewire satellite tuners. Then I run Hyper-V on top with
a number of guests for learning new products i.e. Exchange 2010, Sharepoint
2010, WHS, Ubuntu. I always have one guest running which is a domain
controller for my AD Forest and ensures I have a backup of AD. I think I've
managed to run 5 machines at once. Not doing anything spectacular but more
than usable.

HTH

Paul

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Pauls Hotmail" <paul_gordon@...>
wrote:
>
> I think *all* of the hypervisors do have serial support, but not all
have
> USB. From recollection, I'm fairly sure that ESXi doesn't pass through
USB
> to guests. VMware workstation does (but that's not free), can't
remember if
> VMware server (which is free) does or not...
>
> From recollection, I think they all support raw drive mappings for the
> storage, as well as virtual hard disk files...
>
> P.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Simon Pawson
> Sent: 25 November 2009 14:14
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] VM Recomendations
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm about to finally move my test Atom system back to being a WHS for
a
> while.
>
> For production I'm considering going for a quad core hardware
virtualization
> supporting CPU and motherboard and running WHS on that, saving the
Atom for
> stand-alone GEOVISION use.
>
> Can anyone suggest a (free) VM technology. I want:
>
> (1) Pass through for hard drives (Hyper V does this - is that very
common -
> does it have a proper name)
> (2) USB connectivity to guest (so the UPS can close the WHS down) -
does
> Hyper V do this? I think virtual box does from the doc.
> nice to have: -
> (3) Serial connectivity to Guest for X10 if/when I sort out
renetworking my
> HA'd stuff round the house.
>
> otherwise it will have to be postponed for a while,
>
> Thanks,
>
> Simon
>
>
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