The best (cost effective) virtual machine for Windows 10 guest os PCs?

[Hayden_kor]

Hello experts,

He wants to replace 8 ~ 10 Desktop PCs with one server machine running with a Virtual Machine on the Linux host server.

The Linux host will be,

* XEON multi core (it will be a 32C/64T CPU) workstation

* As much amount of RAM for running 8 ~ 10 VMs of Windows 10 guest OS at the same time

* For each VMs, NO dedicated display output is required (all VMs can be controlled from the host display monitor)

The VM guest Windows,

* Windows 10

* No heavy processing workload (one or two CPU assignment for each VM will be fine)

* Major workload is Ethernet network data communications

So, the questions are,

[1] What host OS will be recommended for this use case, Linux(Ubuntu)? or Windows?

[2] What kind of VM program will be best, cost and performance wise? KVM? or VirtualBox? or else?

[3] Is there any limitation of the VM guest OS count of running at the same time?

Thanks and regards,

Hayden Kim

[IntelSupport · Accepted solution]

Hello Hyun.

Greetings from Intel!

Thank you for choosing Intel, To proceed further we request you to confirm the product that you are referring to also we see that your query is related to system configuration. So we kindly request you to contact intel distributor.

Regards,

Amina

[Hayden_kor]

Ok, I will contact a distributor.

Thanks.

[IntelSupport]

Hello Hyun,  

Greetings from Intel! 

This is the second follow-up regarding the reported issue. We're eager to ensure a swift resolution and would appreciate any updates or additional information you can provide. 

Please feel free to respond to this email at your earliest convenience. 

Regards,  

Amina  

Intel Server Support  

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[IntelSupport]

Hello Hyun, 

Thank you for contacting Intel. 

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As we have not heard back from you, we'll assume the issue has been resolved and will proceed to close the case. 

Please feel free to respond to this email at your earliest convenience. 

Regards, 

Amina 

Intel Server Support  

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