[cod] Mmmm... cores

["Einar S. idsø"]

Do virtual servers actually work well with game-servers? We use virtual
servers for
a lot of things, but for our game servers we use only pure physical
hosts. I would
think that real-time properties, which are quite important for
game-servers as
opposed to webservers, sql-servers and mailservers, would be quite poor for
virtualised servers.

Which virtualisation solutions have proven to work for past-paced games?
And is
there a certain trick to setting them up, such as binding a virtual
server to a single
core?

Cheers,
Einar

Dallas Crandall wrote:
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> Each game server, as far as I know will only use a single core so
> virtual is what this bad boy was made for.  J This machine in our
> environment running Linux game servers, we would be able to run 40-50
> game servers on this single box! Currently we run 6-10 windows servers
> on a single dual core xeon w/8gigs of ram. Remember Vmware allows over
> commitment of memory!!! Most others do not.
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