I would like to run a fully licensed virtual machine instance of Windows Server 2008 on a CentOS 6 Linux server with plenty of hardware resources, I have to setup both host and VM from scratch.
Should I use paravirtualization or hardware-assisted full-virtualization?
According to some write-ups, paravirtualization is preferred as it is faster, however paravirtualization requires both host (dom0) and guests (domUs) have to run a ported XEN kernel. I've also read that CentOS 6x doesn't support dom0.
By using KVM the process seems fairly straight forward, however KVM currently only support hardware-assisted full-virtualization, will this have a major effect on the Windows Server systems performance?, like I said it is mostly used as a file server and host for Windows only software used in the company, like Softline Pastel and VIP Payroll.
Should I use paravirtualization or hardware-assisted full-virtualization?
According to some write-ups, paravirtualization is preferred as it is faster, however paravirtualization requires both host (dom0) and guests (domUs) have to run a ported XEN kernel. I've also read that CentOS 6x doesn't support dom0.
By using KVM the process seems fairly straight forward, however KVM currently only support hardware-assisted full-virtualization, will this have a major effect on the Windows Server systems performance?, like I said it is mostly used as a file server and host for Windows only software used in the company, like Softline Pastel and VIP Payroll.
