I would agree with the comments in favour of VirtualBox and KVM. Used lots of both of them and RHEL6 (or Scientific Linux 6 in my home system's case) runs quite well in it. No problem running 4-5 of them at one time on a moderately powerful desktop system. However that's only console and no GUI. I have no experience (yet) with Xen.
David --- David J. Veer RHCSA, CCNA, Network+ [email protected] On 2012-05-19, at 1:39 PM, Tom Limoncelli wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Andrew Hume <[email protected]> wrote: >> any recommendations for/against any particular flavour of VM? >> i will most likely be running RHEL6 inside them, but may be not. > > Red Hat is in the KVM camp. Canonical is in the Xen camp. You'll get > better support if you stay within your camp. > > One nice thing about KVM is that each virtual machine is a Unix > process. You can "kill -9", so to speak, the entire machine. (More > importantly, you can strace it, and so on). > > Currently they have approximately the same performance. If you need > to squeeze the last bit of performance out of them then you'll have to > benchmark both for your application to see which works best. On the > other hand, if you are that concerned about performance then you > should be using bare metal :-) > > > By the way... there are systems that will manage large groups of KVM > or Xen VMs for you. I am involved in an open source project called > Ganeti which will manage clusters of either. > http://code.google.com/p/ganeti > > > Tom > > -- > http://EverythingSysadmin.com -- my blog > http://www.TomOnTime.com -- my videos > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/
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