Hi David
All the linux big boys are moving fast to KVM. Redhat and IBM have
abandoned Xen completely, making it an out of kernel patch set
maintained by Citrix and perhaps code from Oracle. Youll find that
Debian has also elected to discontinue Xen in the next release.
Virtualbox is still nice for desktop quasi-trivial virtualisation. (Im
sure someone objects to that, and has taken it to a huge scale...)
KVM is still the only in kernel hypervisor (if thats what it is, which
it sort of isnt).
VMware is free as in beer.
At my telco of employ, we are using KVM extensively. Im of the opinion
is the most sane design, gives you the most control and follows the unix
way of re-using existing components to the nth degree.
Chances are its already installed on your reasonably recent release
distribution of choice.
Dean
On 10/01/11 20:57, david wrote:
I've migrated a server to virtualbox for the purpose of experimentation
(namely, to resolve upgrade issues going from Ubuntu 8.04 to 10.04). I
used MondoArchive to clone the hardware server onto a Virtualbox virtual
server. All good so far.
I'm thinking of building future servers within virtual environments -
ie: the server built as a solitary virtual machine within its host.
I'm hoping that will make future upgrades, migration and back-up easier.
I currently run 3 public servers, none of which are heavily loaded.
What virtualisation solutions would people suggest? and is there any
reason this is not a good idea?
thanks..
David.
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