Which CPU would be a better candidate to serve as a Virtual Machine host on Linux OS? Currently I am using VirtualBox but I might consider KVM in the future. Both these CPUs run at similar frequencies. AMD has 8 cores while Intel has 4 cores with hyper-threading.
I want to run (at least) the following Virtual Machines simultaneously:
Linux Mint Desktop 64bit
Ubuntu Server 64bit (mainly for database/web server)
Windows XP (or Vista) 32bit
Host machine will have 16G RAM. Each Virtual Machine is configured as 2 CPU machines. Virtual Machine Disk images are stored on SSDs (grow as needed, not pre-allocated).
Most used applications on the Virtual machines are Lazarus, Netbeans, Eclipse, GIMP or other image editing and Raw Image conversion tools -- so Desktop/GUI response is very important.
Any comments?
Thanks!
I want to run (at least) the following Virtual Machines simultaneously:
Linux Mint Desktop 64bit
Ubuntu Server 64bit (mainly for database/web server)
Windows XP (or Vista) 32bit
Host machine will have 16G RAM. Each Virtual Machine is configured as 2 CPU machines. Virtual Machine Disk images are stored on SSDs (grow as needed, not pre-allocated).
Most used applications on the Virtual machines are Lazarus, Netbeans, Eclipse, GIMP or other image editing and Raw Image conversion tools -- so Desktop/GUI response is very important.
Any comments?
Thanks!