On 3/2/2011 1:35 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
Differently put, we already do this with servers. One big& fast Quad XEON can run many client's Virtual Machines, very easily. And many of those Virtual Machines host a few hundred websites, thus saving a lot on rack space, electricity, etc, etc.
Servers are normally optimized with lots of disk spindles to spread multi-user use of the one remaining slow resource around.
How difficult will it really be todo the same on a normal Desktop PC, with what's available on CentOS ATM?
Give the VM its own disk and it won't have much impact on the host. You'll probably still want to run video-intense things natively, though. And if you aren't a developer doing throwaway tests, what's the point of using a VM for resource-intensive things anyway?