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    Bare metal virtualisation

    I'm looking for something to mess about with so have been looking at bare metal virtualisation, specifically VMWare ESXi. Has anyone out there managed to run any form of bare metal virtualisation on a cheap(ish) setup other than Xeon/ Opteron server hardware?
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    Re: Bare metal virtualisation

    I have had it running on a P5W-DH Deluxe with a Q6600 I found Citrix Xen was easier to setup on a whitebox.
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    Re: Bare metal virtualisation

    you can run esxi on pretty much anything you only problem tends to be disk controllers and network controllers. the hp microservers that you can pick up for less than £150 after rebate can run esx pretty well.

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    beaten to it. xen server work well on commodity hardware because it is effectively linux KVM with some very nice management stuff. though it does require some vtx/amd-v enabled hardware
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    Re: Bare metal virtualisation

    oddly enough Xen and Hyper-V ( which isn't particularly bare metal ) run on a wider ranger of hardware than ESXi.

    that said ESXi is the only one you can actually run in a virtula environment itself , which is why I run my home lab on a regular i7 PC with vmware workstation installed.
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