Comment Re:KVM (Score 1) 268
You put your virtualization on the new machines not on the hand-me-down stuff, silly. Your old machines weren't speced for them.
No, technically they weren't. But the specs fit the need.
PS: This is one reason businesses lease servers instead of buy them. It makes it easy to cycle out the old junk every few years.
Very true. But the cost of buying out the lease of existing servers to use as dom0's was more cost effective than leasing new servers that would be overkill for the entire length of the lease. It's cost justification. Next leasing cycle, specs need to be re-evaluated.
If the CPU doesn't have hardware VM built on it, it isn't an ideal candidate for serving virtual machines period.
Wrong. The CPU's still work great with paravirtualization for creating linux vm's. Just because everyone tends to ignore xen's ability to paravirtualize, doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. It works very well and is very ideal for some needs.
