[Cialug] Don't do this...

[Zachary Kotlarek]

On Jul 23, 2012, at 11:26 AM, Don Ellis wrote:

> What VM tool(s) are you currently using/prefer? Lee and I have been
> using VirtualBox, but starting to consider switching to Xen (at least
> for some applications). Each has benefits and restrictions. I think
> any VM tool will call for some kind of compromise (including having to
> pay for it ;-) ).


For individual installations I use qemu (which uses KVM). I use it directly, but I'm a control freak; I'm sure there are wrappers to make it more friendly. I like it because KVM is part of the kernel mainline so it's easy to keep all the drivers (host and optional guest) up-to-date, particularly if you're running linux guests. And qemu runs as a normal, non-privileged, userland process, which lets you use all of the standard linux tools and techniques for management on the host side.

I've never setup any significant multi-host VM system, so I don't have any recommendation on that front.

	Zach

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