[Cialug] Best VM environment

[Dave Hala]

Virtual box is pretty good on a small to medium scale.  I've had
really good with it.



On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 10:29 AM, Pixie <pix at kepibu.org> wrote:
> On 2016.05.10 22:58, L. V. Lammert wrote:
>> Have been using Xen on a SuSE host for many years, .. but it seems like
>> libvirt is continuing as a pain point - upgrades break things!
>>
>> A friend recommended switching to KVM - it is mature enough for a 1-2VM
>> production host nowdays?
>
> I've been using KVM in my own stuff since Debian Squeeze was current,
> and the only upgrades I've had break things are within the VMs (Jessie
> requires a bit of finagling to actually get a login prompt under `virsh
> console`).
>
> On the other hand, I've inherited Xen from a similar era on a system I
> manage, and if I try to boot into a newer Xen on DOM0 than what things
> were set up under, nothing works.
>
> The latter is probably my own incompetence, but nonetheless endears me
> to KVM.
>
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