Multiple desktops vs multiple VMs
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I am planning to setup a small home network with a couple of servers for music, videos, documents etc. It is also a setup for me to learn more about network programming and administration. Since the current multiple core CPUs are used nowhere near their potential, I am thinking of replacing the hardwares with VMs. Also I feel that this would be easy on my electricity bill and the room would be less cluttered too. I have a few questions. 1. would you recommend that? would you do that? 2. will I be able to "manage" the network similar to managing the physical machines? 3. would the ip address of host be shared or could each vm get its own? 4. could you provide links to some similar setups? edit: I forgot this question. 5. I am thinking of running one VM per core on a multiple core CPU. Would that be possible? I suppose yes and I would have to use Windows 7 to which a VM is just another piece of program, right? Should I bother about this in the first place?
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I am planning to setup a small home network with a couple of servers for music, videos, documents etc. It is also a setup for me to learn more about network programming and administration. Since the current multiple core CPUs are used nowhere near their potential, I am thinking of replacing the hardwares with VMs. Also I feel that this would be easy on my electricity bill and the room would be less cluttered too. I have a few questions. 1. would you recommend that? would you do that? 2. will I be able to "manage" the network similar to managing the physical machines? 3. would the ip address of host be shared or could each vm get its own? 4. could you provide links to some similar setups? edit: I forgot this question. 5. I am thinking of running one VM per core on a multiple core CPU. Would that be possible? I suppose yes and I would have to use Windows 7 to which a VM is just another piece of program, right? Should I bother about this in the first place?
Hi!
bosedk wrote:
1. would you recommend that? would you do that?
Yes, for sure.
bosedk wrote:
2. will I be able to "manage" the network similar to managing the physical machines?
Again, yes. You can reach your servers as if they were physical ones. Managing your machines will be even simpler as you won't have to deal with hardware driver related issues.
bosedk wrote:
3. would the ip address of host be shared or could each vm get its own?
You have the choice for this. You can configure several virtual switches depending on your needs ; a virtual switch can be shared between the host and his VMs, it can be private or it can be shared between the VMs only. When you setup a virtual network card for your VM, you 'plug' it to one of the switches you configured. In your VM, you will see a network card that you can configure as you want (DHCP or not, etc...).
bosedk wrote:
4. could you provide links to some similar setups?
I don't have any but I'm sure you can find some useful examples just by googling. Regards.
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Hi!
bosedk wrote:
1. would you recommend that? would you do that?
Yes, for sure.
bosedk wrote:
2. will I be able to "manage" the network similar to managing the physical machines?
Again, yes. You can reach your servers as if they were physical ones. Managing your machines will be even simpler as you won't have to deal with hardware driver related issues.
bosedk wrote:
3. would the ip address of host be shared or could each vm get its own?
You have the choice for this. You can configure several virtual switches depending on your needs ; a virtual switch can be shared between the host and his VMs, it can be private or it can be shared between the VMs only. When you setup a virtual network card for your VM, you 'plug' it to one of the switches you configured. In your VM, you will see a network card that you can configure as you want (DHCP or not, etc...).
bosedk wrote:
4. could you provide links to some similar setups?
I don't have any but I'm sure you can find some useful examples just by googling. Regards.
No memory stick has been harmed during establishment of this signature.
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I am planning to setup a small home network with a couple of servers for music, videos, documents etc. It is also a setup for me to learn more about network programming and administration. Since the current multiple core CPUs are used nowhere near their potential, I am thinking of replacing the hardwares with VMs. Also I feel that this would be easy on my electricity bill and the room would be less cluttered too. I have a few questions. 1. would you recommend that? would you do that? 2. will I be able to "manage" the network similar to managing the physical machines? 3. would the ip address of host be shared or could each vm get its own? 4. could you provide links to some similar setups? edit: I forgot this question. 5. I am thinking of running one VM per core on a multiple core CPU. Would that be possible? I suppose yes and I would have to use Windows 7 to which a VM is just another piece of program, right? Should I bother about this in the first place?
bosedk wrote:
5. I am thinking of running one VM per core on a multiple core CPU. Would that be possible? I suppose yes and I would have to use Windows 7 to which a VM is just another piece of program, right? Should I bother about this in the first place?
When you configure your VM you can assign it the number of cores you want to, as well as tha amount of RAM that it will use.
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