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Re: [Xen-users] AM2 Motherboard Hardware Recommendations

Quoting James Oakley <joakley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> On Tuesday 15 August 2006 11:40 am, higgers wrote:
> > Has anyone got any
> > hardware recommendations for AM2 motherboards that they've used
> > successfully with Xen?
> 
> I'm running on an Asus M2NPV-VM.
> 

Which distribution and kernel version are you using?  I'm planning on using 
SUSE 10.1.

> > Also, what's the performance on the forcedeth network drivers for the NV5
> > chipset like?  Can you get anywhere near gigabit speeds?  I saw some
> > benches a few weeks ago that put the broadcom chips as the best performing
> > network chipsets under Linux.  However, I've not seen any Am2 motherboards
> > with onboard broadcom network controllers.
> 
> I haven't done any benchmarking, but from what I understand, it would be
> quite 
> difficult to get Intel/Broadcom performance.
> 
> However, you can get PCI-E Broadcom NICs. We have one here.
> 

I didn't know you could get PCI-E broadcom NICs, thanks for the heads up.  Did 
you have to jump through any hoops to get it to work under Linux like add 
options to kernel config file/patch kernel/etc?

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> Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd.
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