Back to the original question: I asked my buddy who's very well versed in virtualization stuff for his short list.
He said for KVM, the kernel is particularly important, so the newer the kernel the better. On this front, Ubuntu is better than CentOS, which tends to have older kernels. If you're using this in any kind of business setting, I would personally not run Fedora, and would go with either Ubuntu (10.4 LTS "lucid") or CentOS if you need a Redhat variant that's free. Gentoo is great for tinkering but I gave up on it several years ago and have never regretted the decision. Hope this helps, Dan On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Chris Knadle <[email protected]>wrote: > On Friday, May 28, 2010, Jesse Farinacci wrote: > > Hi Joe, > > > > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Joseph Apuzzo <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > So the question is... which distro would be the best host for the > > > HV? We are not talking comfort zone, but technical issues like > > > does one distro's HV out preform another? or does Fedora 12 Virt > > > manager have more function? > > > > If you want to talk about performance, then nothing is going to > > beat a properly configured Gentoo system. Nothing. > > > > -Jesse > > True. But when it comes to upgrading a really old box, nothing > compares to the problems you'll have on Gentoo. Nothing. > > -- Chris > > -- > > Chris Knadle > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Jun 2 - Android > Jul 7 - Patent Absurdity - The Movie > Aug 4 - Samba >
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