Re: KVM + virt-manager: which is the perfect host Linux distro?
Evert wrote: Can I conclude from that that Debian is the best host distro to go for? Better than Red Hat & Gentoo? I'm not really convinced there's a big enough difference that it matters -- particularly on a production system where you intend to stick to stable, well-tested software. That said, many of the bleeding-edge tools coming out of Red Hat's Emerging Technologies group (such as libguestfs) are developed principally for Fedora; if you're looking to live on the edge, that might be the way to go. Ubuntu also has their own virtualization group; if you want something where your distributor makes an effort to keep maintained packages available (and accept that this means that they'll lag behind latest upstream a bit), it's not a bad place to be either. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: KVM + virt-manager: which is the perfect host Linux distro?
Evert wrote: Hi all, I am about to install a new host system, which will be hosting various guest systems by means of KVM & virt-manager for GUI. What would be the best choice for host OS distro? Red Hat, or will any mature Linux distro do? Personally I am more of a Gentoo guy, but if there is 1 distro which is clearly better as host OS when it comes to KVM+virt-manager, I am willing to use something else... ;-) Fedora supports KVM and virt-manager nicely. I can't say it's the best, only that it works solidly. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: KVM + virt-manager: which is the perfect host Linux distro?
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Evert schrieb: Hi all, I am about to install a new host system, which will be hosting various guest systems by means of KVM & virt-manager for GUI. What would be the best choice for host OS distro? Red Hat, or will any mature Linux distro do? Personally I am more of a Gentoo guy, but if there is 1 distro which is clearly better as host OS when it comes to KVM+virt-manager, I am willing to use something else... ;-) Did you try this one: http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Main_Page It's Debian based and have everything you need for virtualisation already prepared. To my knowledge Proxmox does not support software RAID ( http://www.linux-kvm.com/content/kvm-83-released-support-amd-iommu-qemu-svn-merge ), unless you configure that manually... Otherwise Proxmox is promising, yes... Can I conclude from that that Debian is the best host distro to go for? Better than Red Hat & Gentoo? Regards, Evert -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: KVM + virt-manager: which is the perfect host Linux distro?
Evert schrieb: Hi all, I am about to install a new host system, which will be hosting various guest systems by means of KVM & virt-manager for GUI. What would be the best choice for host OS distro? Red Hat, or will any mature Linux distro do? Personally I am more of a Gentoo guy, but if there is 1 distro which is clearly better as host OS when it comes to KVM+virt-manager, I am willing to use something else... ;-) Did you try this one: http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Main_Page It's Debian based and have everything you need for virtualisation already prepared. -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
KVM + virt-manager: which is the perfect host Linux distro?
Hi all, I am about to install a new host system, which will be hosting various guest systems by means of KVM & virt-manager for GUI. What would be the best choice for host OS distro? Red Hat, or will any mature Linux distro do? Personally I am more of a Gentoo guy, but if there is 1 distro which is clearly better as host OS when it comes to KVM+virt-manager, I am willing to use something else... ;-) Regards, Evert -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
