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Note: you must use Intel VT or AMD-V enabled CPUs for this. Opterons that have only 3 digits in their model number won't work (such as 275, 880, etc), those with 4 digits (2220, 8218, etc) will.

(edit: looks like non-Windows guest OSes can only be allocated 1 virtual CPU; for me that is a deal-killer.)




If you want to run non-windows guest OS's then why us Windows as the host/hypervisor?


If you were a 99% Windows shop but wanted a linux-based DNS, mediawiki, subversion or similar server would be one case. (Host mostly Windows guests, but a small number of non-Windows.)


In which case you would have windows server machines that could run VirtualPC/VMware/Virtualbox.

The only 'point' of this article is that you can distribute a free windows base image.




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