[Cialug] VM Server

[Pixie]

On 2014.01.18 12:54, David Champion wrote:
> I'm planning to upgrade my co-located server, a good old Dell SC1425 I've
> been running for years, with a Dell PE2950, and run a Virtual Machine
> server. The VM's will be running Linux.
> 
> I'm quite familiar with VMWare. I've run VirtualBox on the desktop for
> testing OS's, and I've just started playing around with KVM. Haven't run
> Xen.
> 
> Of all of these, I'm kind of leaning towards KVM at the moment. It seems
> really easy to set up, and you can manage your vm's from the command line,
> i.e. I can ssh in from my tablet and restart a VM if something crashes.
> 
> Anyone have any input on what they'd run for a VM Server?

KVM + virt-manager has been rock solid for me; both on my local server,
where it runs Linux VMs, and on my work laptop where it runs a mix of
Linux and Windows VMs.

However, it's the only thing I've used so I can't really do a fair
comparison with other options.  I'm certainly happy with it.