We're getting a new box at work to host virtual machines, and I'm trying to figure out what the best virtualisation solution might be. The specs will very likely be a dual quad-core CPU with 32GB RAM, running CentOS.
I'd like to have something that: * is FOSS * is easy to manage (I've got other responsibilities and don't want to be bogged down with sysadmin work) * can preferably also run on our Fedora 8 desktops, so we can share VM images * can support a wide variety of guest OSs (especially Linux, Windows and Solaris) Most of my experience is with VMware, but that's proprietary. We've got some Xen experience in the office, but this server will be managed by me and quite frankly I find Xen to be overly complicated. KVM looks very neat, in that it uses Linux as the hypervisor and so doesn't try to be an OS unto itself. It's also Red Hat's preferred virtualisation platform nowadays, which is great since we use a lot of Red Hat and CentOS. Cheers, Sridhar -- Bring choice back to your computer. http://www.linux.org.au/linux -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
