On 03/24/2011 01:56 PM, Kevin Fries wrote:
One of my favorite tools for testing multiple distros has always been
ProxmoxVE

http://pve.proxmox.com

It is wicked cool. Think of VMWare ESX, Open Source edition. It uses KVM
to build virtual machines on top of a "striped to its shorts" version of
debian. I used to use this in a lab environment all the time.

Just another option
Kevin

I'm with Kevin. I haven't tried ProxmoxVE (yet), but if you have a good plan that includes KVM, then the decision of "which distro" becomes much easier to deal with. AFA the best hypervisor for desktops, that's debatable. I think the top contenders at this time are KVM and Virtualbox.

If I were starting from scratch, I'd go with KVM. There several other KVM management tools available as well in addition to Proxmox. See http://ajmf.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/management-interfaces-for-the-kernel-virtual-machine-kvm/ for a rundown.

VirtualMachineManager is also simple and effective. The others are probably overkill for the desktop.

--
-Eric 'shubes'

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