[Cialug] VM Server

[David Champion]

I'm downloading proxmox, will give it a try on a test machine.

-dc


On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Pixie <pix at kepibu.org> wrote:

> On 2014.01.18 12:54, David Champion wrote:
> > I'm planning to upgrade my co-located server, a good old Dell SC1425 I've
> > been running for years, with a Dell PE2950, and run a Virtual Machine
> > server. The VM's will be running Linux.
> >
> > I'm quite familiar with VMWare. I've run VirtualBox on the desktop for
> > testing OS's, and I've just started playing around with KVM. Haven't run
> > Xen.
> >
> > Of all of these, I'm kind of leaning towards KVM at the moment. It seems
> > really easy to set up, and you can manage your vm's from the command
> line,
> > i.e. I can ssh in from my tablet and restart a VM if something crashes.
> >
> > Anyone have any input on what they'd run for a VM Server?
>
> KVM + virt-manager has been rock solid for me; both on my local server,
> where it runs Linux VMs, and on my work laptop where it runs a mix of
> Linux and Windows VMs.
>
> However, it's the only thing I've used so I can't really do a fair
> comparison with other options.  I'm certainly happy with it.
>
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