On Wed Feb 27, 2008 at 19:51:50 +0000, Sean Gibbins wrote:
> What sort of spec do you expect to get for ?300 
  I bought this for 129 quid:
    http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?BB-X24216M
  Adding 4Gb of memory + 2x512Gb drives + a graphics card pushed
  the total to 360 quid.
  On that I run 8 xen guests regularly with no issues:
skx@gold:~$ xm list
Name                                      ID Mem(MiB) VCPUs State   Time(s)
Domain-0                                   0     2868     2 r----- 154556.5
cfmaster.services.xen                      1      256     1 -b----    410.7
etch32.desktop.xen                        16      256     1 r-----      0.1
etch32.security-build.xen                 13      128     1 -b----      3.7
etch64.desktop.xen                        15      256     1 -b----      2.5
etch64.security-build.xen                 14      128     1 -b----      2.7
exim4.local.test                          12      128     1 -b----     16.6
  So I'd say with 300 quid you could manage it.  Memory is likely to be
 the most contended resource, so having 2-4Gb will be good!
Steve
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