[Cialug] Best VM environment

[L. V. Lammert]

On Thu, 12 May 2016, Theron Conrey wrote:

> 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.
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> -theron
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Exactly what we have been using for five years w/Xen &SuSE. From reports .
it appears that KVM may be worth a try on the next build.

	Lee

	Lee