Re: recommendations on virtualization software

2009-03-20 Thread Mark Ellison
On 03/19/2009 11:55 AM, Mark Ellison wrote: I am seeking recommendations and pros/cons of different virtualization software. The physical machine is a Intel T9400 quad core with 8GB ram, 2x500GB sata disks and 1Gb nic. My current plan is to run 64 bit Fedora Core 10 (or 11 as available)

Re: recommendations on virtualization software

2009-03-20 Thread Alan Johnson
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Mark Ellison m...@ellisonsoftware.comwrote: Many thanks to everyone responding on this thread. Based upon the information provided my plan is work with KVM! Yeah, that's mostly what I was going to recommend too. The KVM GUI tools are sweet too (at least in

Re: recommendations on virtualization software

2009-03-20 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Friday 20 March 2009 11:03:55 Alan Johnson wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Mark Ellison m...@ellisonsoftware.comwrote: Many thanks to everyone responding on this thread. Based upon the information provided my plan is work with KVM! Yeah, that's mostly what I was going to

recommendations on virtualization software

2009-03-19 Thread Mark Ellison
Hi, I am seeking recommendations and pros/cons of different virtualization software. The physical machine is a Intel T9400 quad core with 8GB ram, 2x500GB sata disks and 1Gb nic. My current plan is to run 64 bit Fedora Core 10 (or 11 as available) as the host OS. The guest OSes will include

Re: recommendations on virtualization software

2009-03-19 Thread Jeffrey O'brien
From: Mark Ellison m...@ellisonsoftware.com To: Greater NH Linux User Group gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Date: 3/19/2009 11:58 AM Subject:recommendations on virtualization software Hi, I am seeking recommendations and pros/cons of different virtualization software

Re: recommendations on virtualization software

2009-03-19 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Thursday 19 March 2009 11:55:12 Mark Ellison wrote: Hi, I am seeking recommendations and pros/cons of different virtualization software. The physical machine is a Intel T9400 quad core with 8GB ram, 2x500GB sata disks and 1Gb nic. My current plan is to run 64 bit Fedora Core 10

Re: recommendations on virtualization software

2009-03-19 Thread Thomas Charron
On 3/19/09, Mark Ellison m...@ellisonsoftware.com wrote: Hi, I am seeking recommendations and pros/cons of different virtualization software. The physical machine is a Intel T9400 quad core with 8GB ram, 2x500GB sata disks and 1Gb nic. My current plan is to run 64 bit Fedora Core 10 (or 11

Re: recommendations on virtualization software

2009-03-19 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 03/19/2009 11:55 AM, Mark Ellison wrote: Hi, I am seeking recommendations and pros/cons of different virtualization software. The physical machine is a Intel T9400 quad core with 8GB ram, 2x500GB sata disks and 1Gb nic. My current plan is to run 64 bit Fedora Core 10 (or 11 as

Re: recommendations on virtualization software

2009-03-19 Thread Tom Buskey
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Jeffrey O'brien jobr...@expertserver.comwrote: From: Mark Ellison m...@ellisonsoftware.com To: Greater NH Linux User Group gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Date: 3/19/2009 11:58 AM Subject:recommendations on virtualization software Hi, I

Re: recommendations on virtualization software

2009-03-19 Thread Dave Johnson
Mark Ellison writes: Hi, I am seeking recommendations and pros/cons of different virtualization software. The physical machine is a Intel T9400 quad core with 8GB ram, 2x500GB sata disks and 1Gb nic. My current plan is to run 64 bit Fedora Core 10 (or 11 as available) as the host OS.

Re: recommendations on virtualization software

2009-03-19 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Thursday 19 March 2009 12:06:18 Jeffrey O'brien wrote: Your best bet for OS support would be in VMware(Try Server, its Free and less bloated than workstation), due to the binary translation they are able to run the most variety of OSes (BSD's, Solaris x86, Windows, Linux 2.4 -2.6). For

Re: recommendations on virtualization software

2009-03-19 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 03/19/2009 12:12 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote: On 03/19/2009 11:55 AM, Mark Ellison wrote: Hi, I am seeking recommendations and pros/cons of different virtualization software. The physical machine is a Intel T9400 quad core with 8GB ram, 2x500GB sata disks and 1Gb nic. My current plan is to

Re: recommendations on virtualization software

2009-03-19 Thread Jeffrey O'brien
From: Jarod Wilson ja...@wilsonet.com To: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Date: 3/19/2009 2:13 PM Subject:Re: recommendations on virtualization software On Thursday 19 March 2009 12:06:18 Jeffrey O'brien wrote: Your best bet for OS support would be in VMware(Try Server, its

Re: recommendations on virtualization software

2009-03-19 Thread Mark Komarinski
I'm currently using Xen since all the guests I have are Linux. How hard is it to migrate from Xen to KVM if I wanted to go that route? To expand a bit on what I'm doing, I have four guests that run independent Debian Etch instances, and each of which is backed by DRBD running on two servers,

Re: recommendations on virtualization software

2009-03-19 Thread Mark Johnson
I use Xen and VMWare on different server. I like VMWare ESXi because it is free and very easy to moving around or cloning. --- On Thu, 3/19/09, Mark Ellison m...@ellisonsoftware.com wrote: From: Mark Ellison m...@ellisonsoftware.com Subject: recommendations on virtualization software

Re: recommendations on virtualization software

2009-03-19 Thread Alan Johnson
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Mark Ellison m...@ellisonsoftware.comwrote: Hi, Hi! Howdy! Please to meet you! How are you? Doing well, I hope? ;-) I am seeking recommendations and pros/cons of different virtualization software. What is the intended application? Workstation,