

Or does it get generalized to a non-descript standard CPU type? being not too familiar with Virtualization in that sense can you mimic a core of the CPU as that of another brand? which you better have a proper wallet for because you won't be a happy man when you have to shell out money for that. In that case you need to get the proper server chips. Running a crapton of VMs all at the same time however any of the aforementioned chips will struggle. If you have no budget and want the best of the best then your choice is 5820K / 5930K / 5960X with a crapton of memory or the Xeon equivalent if you need ECC.ĪMD has historically always been better in virtualization tech than Intel, even though their cores are weaker their universal support makes up for most deficiencies. do not that some mobo manufacturers (mostly their budget range) disable ECC on purpose on their mobo.
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If you're on a budget but want max performance go AMD with fast memory and a lot of it, you can even go with ECC memory for this as long as it's unbuffered and unregistered as all AMD CPUs have full support for ECC. I need a rig that wont struggle when a VM is running along with my IDE's and debugging and analysis software.It fully depends upon the software used but in general AMD CPUs fare better on virtualization support than Intel CPUs do unless you decide to crap out a lot of money. I probably have 20+ VM's on my HDD taking up about 200~gb of space for the VDI's.
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I am using my current rig for testing multi-platform software that I have written, I have every linux distro imaginable, windows XP and up, and Mac OSX Snow Leopard and up. It's hard to tell until we know what they're doing, and how they're doing it. If the OP is only using one VM and it's chugging on that, I think there's something else going on. If it's the OP's main system that they game on, I wouldn't recommend it. I -believe- devil's canyon supports VT-d now. That, on top of AMD's superior virtualization tech, makes for a good combo. The only time an Intel is recommended for VM ONLY situations, is if you're gonna blow like $1500 on the CPU and board and go with the top end i7's or extremes that have 6-8 cores. it isn't), the fact that the Intel cores are about 40-50% more efficient, clock-for-clock, will solidly trump having a few extra cores sitting around idle.I know people don't like getting told to google something but.

Unless what you're trying to do in the VM is HEAVILY multithreaded (chances are. The 8350's cores are so damn weaksauce, especially with the shared FPU, that i cant imagine it doing any better at identical clocks than an i5. I'd like to see some benchmarks on that one, honestly.
