Why not "closed source" VMWare, which is the pretty much been there from the beginning? You've got VMWare Server, which is free and will run on top of CentOS and/or Fedora. You also have an option of ESXi, which is also free and which I would recommend over VMWare Server due to it's preformance superiority.
We were running about 10 or so VMWare Servers until I've tested ESXi. Now everything is slowly moving over to ESXi. If you will decide to go with ESXi though, hold the purchase of the new server and make sure it's compatible first. Andre > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Sridhar Dhanapalan <[email protected]> > To: SLUG <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:13:52 +1100 > Subject: [SLUG] virtualisation solutions? > 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
