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08-24-2011, 12:13 PM #1Web Hosting Guru
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Virtualbox or VMware or VPS
Well, I see the actual Windows VPS are quite expensive so I was looking to buy some very stable Linux VPS from a very good provider and run Windows virtually on it.
I am basically thinking to get a 2GB ram linux server because I need at least 1.4 GB for my Windows machine for the softwares I use. So I wanted to know if doing Virtual Windows hosting on linux is a good idea and if it would consume under 512MB ram in hosting a virtual machine for me. Like it would be good if it uses lesser resources giving me good quality VPS. So what resources do Virtualbox or VMware use and which one is better?
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08-24-2011, 03:13 PM #2Aspiring Evangelist
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Lots of folks have published papers about running what's called VMWare-in-VMWare or ESXi-in-ESXi. In this case it sounds like you want to do VMWare-Server-in-ESXi or in-VirtualBox. I think that would work reasonably well on VMWare though I don't have any personal experience with virtualbox.
Please post back when you do the test and tell us how it worked. This is one of the most interesting use cases of cloud computing that I've seen (the concept of virtualizing a virtualized system). This is the first time I've seen windows-in-linux-in-esxi mentioned too. Please post back results!
Best,
Dave
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08-24-2011, 04:25 PM #5Aspiring Evangelist
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The IO will be pretty bad, and there will be an incredible number of context switches that occur for even the most basic commands, but I'd be very interested in seeing the results. Please post back if you get this working.
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