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    If you're looking to run your own hypervisor I'd suggest something
    called Proxmox.  Its open source / linux based and allows you to
    create both openvz and kvm containers via a nifty web interface. 
    Their website is <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://pve.proxmox.com">https://pve.proxmox.com</a><br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/21/2014 12:24 AM, Dahlia Trimble
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          <div>I've used OpenSimulator in a variety of virtual machines,
            from KVM to OpenVZ to VirtualBox to EC2. In general
            performance is less than when running in bare hardware but
            everything usually works. I've seen some issues with timer
            accuracy in some virtual machines in the past and had to
            compile a custom linux kernel to get around it, but I think
            recent virtualization technology has probably fixed this.
            Some technologies like OpenVZ I found very difficult to work
            with in general and I prefer to stick with the KVM style
            approach where the host OS kernel is set up to allow a
            "closer to the metal" virtualization.<br>
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          I think virtual machines are good for lower performance
          installations where fewer avatars and scripts are expected.
          and bare metal should be used where higher performance is
          needed.<br>
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        Often hosting companies will oversell and you may get a lot less
        performance than you would expect from their advertised
        specifications. If performance is poor with one company, try
        others. The cheapest deal is usually far from the best.<br>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Justin
          Clark-Casey <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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            .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I've seen
            OpenSimulator run under different virtual machines (Xen and
            EC2).  Back a few years ago, there was a very odd issue when
            using EC2 where the simulator process wouldn't certain start
            context switching millions of times and freeze out all other
            processes, though that may have been a mono issue rather
            than EC2.<br>
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            Other than that, it appears to work just fine as long as you
            give it sufficient CPU resources, as is the case when
            running on bare metal.
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                On 20/02/14 21:19, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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                  Hi all<br>
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                  I wad wondering if anyone had much experience with
                  running OpenSim under a<br>
                  virtual machine? I'm interested in finding out what
                  sort of performance<br>
                  can be expected from running in that sort of
                  environment and how far it<br>
                  can be pushed without too many issues.<br>
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                -- <br>
                Justin Clark-Casey (justincc)<br>
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