Hi Mark, On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Mark van Harmelen <markvanharme...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have no experience of virtualisation, apart from running VirtualBox here > and there, and I'm wondering if anyone has an easy-to-do recommendation for > me, please.
There are many virtualization solutions and setups out there, and a multiple of them are used by so many people that all of them must be called a generally viable solution if one wants to use virtualization. The final choice depends on details in your useage scenarios and general infrastructure, as well as personal prefrences. Such a decision should be based on a lot of facts - much more than you wrote here - and/or a trial period to test the solution under near-production circumstances. So, Xen and KVM can be good solutions for you, you might also consider OpenVZ, too. As far as I see, if you want to use an Ubuntu Server as virtualization host, KVM might be the best supported option of those. > Has anyone got any experience converting a bare metal server to a virtual > image? There are tools saying to support that, but I'd always try to do a re-install wherever possible - any take the chance to introduce an automated deployment and configuration solution so you never have to think about such a conversion again because your systems are setup from bare metal in orders of minutes. Henning -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam