On 06/25/10 10:14, Frank Murphy wrote: > Have a box with a 320GB and a 500gm sata hds' > > What is the best method to set this up. > > It's a core 2 quad 64bit, with currently 4gb ram (max 8) > > I would like it to run Fedora12 32+64 && Fedora13 32+64 && Rawhide. > > For trying to reproduce certain bugs on current Releases. > > I can add extra drives to box as necessary. > > Best base F12,F13, Rawhide? > > XFCE is my preferred DE.
Hi Frank, That should be pretty straight forward. Run the latest stable release on your host, eg. F13/x86_64 and download the isos you wish to have installed. The simplest way to do it is probably to use virt-manager to install the guests with. Depending on your data setup, like if you want to be able to share data/source code from the host you could export that to the guests via NFS. In that case you don't need more than say 10GB/guest for the operating system. Add more if you want more data space in the guest. General rule of thumb, don't try to assign more vcpus to a guest than you have physical cores. Use virtio for networking and disk (virt-manager should either pick that automatically or give you an option to choose). Second, if you run a lot of large guests at the same time, you will see the system being sluggish. For best performance either use a raw partition on the host for each guest, or a raw image file. qcow2 is a fair bit slower. In addition, virt-manager allows you to connect to the GUI of each guest so you can run whichever window manager you prefer. Cheers, Jes _______________________________________________ virt mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt
