[Cialug] Best VM environment

[matt at itwannabe.com]

I was also going to point out the Xen to KVM migration of Linode, but Mr. Ramaley beat me to it.  I would also like to add that DigitalOcean uses KVM, and has done so since they began.

I had Linode move my VPS over to KVM already, so now both my Linode and my Droplet are both running along happily using KVM (not that I have any exposure to it or the difference between KVM and Xen).

-- Matt (N0BOX)

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-----Original Message-----
From: "L. V. Lammert" <lvl at omnitec.net>
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
Sent: Thu, 12 May 2016 9:19
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Best VM environment

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.
>
> -theron
>
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
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