Is Hyper-V Serveur 2008 working sur Intel's Atom platform

Windows Server & IT Pro Hyper-V & Virtualisation
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Did anybody try to install Hyper-V on Intel Atom platform?

Hyper-V requires:

  • x64 compatible processor with Intel VT or AMD-V technology enabled

  • Hardware Data Execution Prevention (DEP)

Il semble que both requirements are satisfied with Atom as processor. Cependant, I wonder whether tVoici some blocking issue (e.g. BIOS that does not support it) since all Atom motherboards I checked had quite old north/south-bridge.

My intentions are to run two low-requirements virtual machines (embedded Linux), so performance should not be an issue.

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Plenty of people have tried VMWare ESXi on Atom, and have come to the conclusion that it works si vous get the right motherboard, but performance is absolutely awful.

I can’t see this being different for Hyper-V. You’re going to be able to buy a cheap AMD Opteron system with virtualization built-in and fully supported by Hyper-V for as little as an Atom system is going to cost you, I’d recommend going down that route.