[ale] almost OT: Hardware for virtualization

[charriglists at bellsouth.net (Calvin Harrigan)]

On 8/17/2011 12:09 PM, Boris Borisov wrote:
> I never done any installation of virtual servers and I want to start experimenting with the technology. Whats is the minimum CPU+MB that I can buy in Microcenter ( I work nearby ) for my needs. Bear in mind is going to be only for tests learning purpose not for production :)
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> Thank you for all suggestions !
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Something with at least two cores(3+ GHz), 4GB+ ram, discrete video 
card.  If you are going to use Linux as the host (blasphemy if not), 
make sure the chipset on the MB is fully supported.  That's harder to 
not find than to find these days though.  AMD CPUs gives a good bang for 
the buck.  MSI/ASUS MB with ddr3.  DDR2 is getting to be a bit expensive.