[aklug] Re: Dedicated Virtualization

From: Leif Sawyer <lsawyer@gci.com>
Date: Wed Dec 08 2010 - 10:29:40 AKST

Christopher Howard writes:
> Hey guys, at work I managed to get hold of one (pretty nice)=20
> spare PC, and I want it to be dedicated to just running VMs.=20
> The VMs will be mainly be used for testing purposes (e.g.,=20
> experimenting with software/networking configurations).
>=20
> I was wondering if I should go with what I know (Qemu built=20
> on a Linux base) or if I should try out this "Xen" thing. Whatsay?

Big fan of kvm+qemu here. Lots of support for different HW platforms.
It's possibly to run Arm, Sparc, whatever.

Xen is falling by the wayside.

VMWare is fine, if you want something desktoppy to play with, because
  the odds of you running ESX are going to be pretty low.

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