Re: OT: source for cheap used computers

Carey,

I'd take a peek at OpenStack -- here is an article on the 'Cactus' release -- http://bit.ly/hIZr01

"hypervisor support in the new release has been broadened to include VMware's vSphere hypervisors. OpenStack now supports Microsoft Hyper-V, KVM, LXC, QEMU, UML, VMware vSphere, Xen and Citrix XenServer hypervisors."

	douglas

On Apr 18, 2011, at 3:41 PM, [email protected] wrote:

> My desktop died, this is coming from webmail on my notebook, so please reply directly to me, I am likely to miss anything on the list.
> 
> The way it died makes me think it may be dying the same as the how the last one died, with the disk controller gradually degrading, causing sporadic errors, before a complete failure.  So maybe I should get a new(er) computer.  I am financially challenged (unemployed) so need something under $100.  I would like one that can virtualize, since none of my existing computers can.  At least 2 GHz and upgradeable to 2GB or preferably more.  Disk size not critical, I have some, and I have a fileserver for non-current stuff.
> 
> Looking on craigs list seems to be high end (multi core) especially game machines, and laptops.  One post for a server led to this: 
>      http://www.belmont-techsales.com/Used_Systems_s/37.htm 
> Does anybody have any experience with that company pro or con?  I'd prefer a (mini tower) case where I can install my own DVD writer drive, but I can burn DVDs on my fileserver, just not as convenient.  The second one on the website, upgraded to 3 GB is $89.  Maybe if I searched for info on the computer I could determine if it will virtualize, but is there an easy way to tell?  Is a P4HT vs P4 VMWare ready|?  Or, maybe, everything new enough to be 3GHz?  The only way I know to tell is entering a command in a super user (root) terminal window under linux and looking for features.  I've ordered "virtualization for dummies" from the library.
> 
> Or does somebody on this list have something appropriate, and didn't feel it was worth the effort to try to sell it on Craig's list/ebay, and will sell it to me cheap?  Northwest suburbs preferred.
> 
> --Carey
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