Well XenServer 5 would do it, but it's not FOSS. Virtualbox *might* if it's Solaris 10 (I haven't gotten 9 working yet), pretty sure the others will work - Windows will and I find it faster on my laptop than on bare metal.
Xen is pretty powerful, but there is still a lack of good, solid management tools that cover HA, iSCSI integration, replication, migration etc etc. That is what I have found in my travels. 2009/3/18 Sridhar Dhanapalan <[email protected]> > 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 > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
