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To: rudedog who wrote (257506)	12/22/2008 3:11:46 PM
From: Saturn V	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Hi Rudedog, I have been following your posts regarding the merits of virtualisation on Opteron via Nested Page Tables. I am confused by some issues. The advantage of virtualization is that it allows multiple operating systems to be run on a single hardware platform, giving improved operating efficiency and lower hardware and operating costs. But how many operating systems can be run on a x86 system ? I count Microsoft,Linux and Solaris. How do you end up with 8 VM ? Are you virtualising several instances of the same OS ? If excessive virtualization is costing you so much performance and power, does it not make sense to revisit the issue of virtualisation, and re-architect the system with lower amount of virtualisation ?