[Cialug] Best VM environment

[David Champion]

I'm running my personal server with KVM on CentOS, it works fine for me
with just a few VM guests. I'd probably run proxmox if I were doing more
with it. If it was for a business / enterprise solution I'd probably stick
with VMware.

I use VirtualBox on desktops for running test environments, it works great
for that. I don't think I'd want to use it for production.

-dc

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 11:48 AM, Daniel A. Ramaley <
daniel.ramaley at drake.edu> wrote:

> On 2016-05-11 at 11:16:02 L. V. Lammert wrote:
> > Thanks for the info, .. in that era, Xen was the stable player; sounds
> > like KVM is just as stable now, and there may be some advantages over
> > Xen.
>
> For what it is worth, i have a small number of virtual servers running
> on Linode's infrastructure. They are in the process of migrating from
> Xen to KVM. They strongly encourage new machines to be created on KVM
> instead of Xen, and soon will disallow new machines on Xen and start
> consolidating Xen VMs onto a smaller number of hypervisors. They've also
> come up with a migration process (from Xen to KVM) that is really easy
> for the user; it has been reduced to a single button in their web
> interface. At Linode, anyway, KVM seems to be the future. Since their
> entire business is virtualization, i can assume that they have put quite
> a bit of thought into this transition.
>
> At work i administer a number of Citrix XenServers and quite like them
> for server virtualization. I also run VirtualBox for desktop
> virtualization and can recommend it.
>
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