Re: Hardware recommendation request

[Christoph Egger <Christoph_Egger%gmx.de@localhost>]

On Thursday 28 August 2008 14:58:57 John Hayward wrote:
> Dear NetBSD Xen People,
>     I will be getting a new computer soon and am pressed for time and I
> know people on this list will have good recommendations.  I am pretty
> much restrcted to desktop which are in the HP line.
>     My concern is that there is a 4GB address limitation with 32 bit
> addressing.
>     What chip and motherboard would work best with NetBSD-Xen to support
> more than 4GB of memory to allow a reasonable number and amount of memory
> for DomUs?

On the desktop side, there are cheap motherboards where you can plug in
8GB RAM (4x 2GB) or 16GB RAM (4x 4GB).

On the server side, there are multi socket machines where you can
plug in 8GB (4x 2GB) or 16GB (4x 4GB) for each socket.

Note, the 4GB DIMMs are very expensive.

Christoph