[Cialug] VM Environments

[Paul Gray]

On 07/23/2012 01:56 PM, Zachary Kotlarek wrote:
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> On Jul 23, 2012, at 11:26 AM, Don Ellis wrote:
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>> What VM tool(s) are you currently using/prefer? Lee and I have been
>> using VirtualBox, but starting to consider switching to Xen (at least
>> for some applications). Each has benefits and restrictions. I think
>> any VM tool will call for some kind of compromise (including having to
>> pay for it ;-) ).
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> For individual installations I use qemu (which uses KVM). I use it directly, but I'm a control freak; I'm sure there are wrappers to make it more friendly. I like it because KVM is part of the kernel mainline so it's easy to keep all the drivers (host and optional guest) up-to-date, particularly if you're running linux guests. And qemu runs as a normal, non-privileged, userland process, which lets you use all of the standard linux tools and techniques for management on the host side.
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> I've never setup any significant multi-host VM system, so I don't have any recommendation on that front.

Consider "Proxmox".  It's free, supports live migration, HA, Fencing, 
failover storage through sheepdog/splitbrain/ceph and full-blown 
clustering.  It supports KVM and vz virtualization/migration/automated 
backups.

And, again I'll mention that it's free.

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