Debian + KVM on IBM eServer x345?

Debian + KVM on IBM eServer x345?

[Michelle Konzack]

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Hello,

I have a bnch of x335 and x345 with Xeon CPUs of  2.4-3.0 GHz  and  all
with 4GByte of memory.

Can you tell me, whether I can run KVM on it + 4-8 Debian guests guests?

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
    Michelle Konzack

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Re: Debian + KVM on IBM eServer x345?

[Timo Schoeler]

thus Michelle Konzack spake:
> Hello,
>
> I have a bnch of x335 and x345 with Xeon CPUs of  2.4-3.0 GHz  and  all
> with 4GByte of memory.

IIRC not all of those machines contained CPUs with the necessary feature
to run KVM; just run

egrep '(vmx|svm)' --color=always /proc/cpuinfo

and see if it (as it's an intel-based machine) gives you the 'vmx' back.

If not, no KVM. However, you can still run Xen (which I do on a bunch of
x345's, very happily).

> Can you tell me, whether I can run KVM on it + 4-8 Debian guests guests?

If they do run KVM, depends on the workload. However, I'd get more
memory (assuming CPU light tasks handled by the guests) to add.

> Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
>     Michelle Konzack

HTH,

Timo