virtualization solution for non-VT-x platform
 

I have a server with following general hardware specifications:

I would like to run headless Linux installation as a host OS and Debian + Windows Server 2003 as guest operating systems. What would be the best solution in terms of performance and stability?

VMware ESXi ?

I will suggest XEN

I installed VMWare ESXi to the server, but am I correct, that I need a Windows platform for VMWare ESXi hypervisor management? I mean I installed vSphere CLI tools under Linux machine, but it looks like they lack some functionality(for example I can't create/change virtual machines using the CLI tools). There seems to be a nice Windows GUI tool for those management tasks(vSphere Client), but nothing similar for Linux platform? In conclusion this would require a separate Windows machine for ESXi management :rolleyes:

When the virtual machines first came out there was no cpu or board support.

It will all be cpu based but I'd think any would still work. One of the VM's tried to force it to work only on supported but they dropped that idea.

I'd run VMplayer or other on some OS but it more depends on what you want to do or support.


Might look at proxmox. I haven't used it but it may be worth a try.

.. correct, VMware management tools are mostly Windows based. There are some works in progress though, I just started looking at psphere which shows a lot of promise - http://jkinred.bitbucket.org/psphere/

cheers