[Cialug] Best VM environment

[Theron Conrey]

Late to the game here. KVM is supported now natively in most supported kernels, doesn't require a separate Xen kernel to run. Virsh and virt-manager make configuration of hosts and VMs simple. If you're still looking for a single physical server solution, I'd still consider something like a bare metal minimal centos config.  If you need transparent network access for your VMs bridging is easy to setup and you can take advantage of selinux as well.  Any distro should work, but I like the baked in ability to scale you'd get from using native tools in a centos/fedora/Redhat  Kvm/virsh/virtual-manager config for a small environment.  This would allow easy growth to shared storage, live migration environments or even container deployments if needed.

-theron

> On May 11, 2016, at 6:33 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 11 May 2016, Dave Hala wrote:
>> 
>> It depends on the context.  If you're running multiple vm's on a
>> single machine, its a non-issue.
> Ahh, .. not quite. VirtualBox buries ALL configuration under you login
> user, .. when someone else needs to tweak something that user is SOL.
> 
> VirtualBox is only for a desktop user - WAY too painful to run in an
> production environment (no matter the number of servers).
> 
> Installing a distro [your favorite, .. mine is SuSE] with virualization
> support makes MUCH more sense.
> 
>    Lee
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