[Ale-study] Virtualization?

[Donald Norman]

John,
Do you have a suggestion as to which virtualization system I should  
consider?  Also, how much RAM per VM do I reasonably need to have?   I  
will likely begin with CentOS as a host as it is server centric, unless  
you think otherwise.

Donald


On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:51:20 -0500, John <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:

> Which virtualization tech will everyone be using?
>
> Knowing which host OS you will use will help with December's ALE-NW
> meeting.  I'm planning to demonstrate setting up VirtualBox on both
> Windows and Ubuntu OSes, but the host OS that most of you here use will
> get more coverage.
>
> VirtualBox isn't solid enough for servers, IMHO, but it is the easiest
> to deploy on Windows. On my hardware, virtualbox running on Ubuntu
> locked up multiple times after 4-6 days of a client running WinXP. Not
> just the client-VM - the entire physical server - I had to press the
> BRS. Unacceptable.
> I have Xen VMs that run for months and months without issue, but Xen
> isn't directly supported by current Ubuntu or Redhat releases, so I
> wouldn't deploy that today. The Xen VMs are all 8.04 LTS Ubuntu which
> has a few more years of support. Stability of a host is critical to me.
>
> http://blog.jdpfu.com/2009/12/22/virtualization-survey-an-overview has
> more of my thoughts on the different virtualization options suitable for
> servers. It is about a year old. Setting up a new VM server environment
> today on Linux for Linux VMs, I'd use KVM.  Desktop virtualization is
> different. If I had a budget for VM tools, my answer may be different,
> especially, if I needed to run Windows.
>
> VirtualBox was discussed on the FLOSS Weekly podcast
> http://blog.jdpfu.com/2010/08/16/virtualbox-on-floss-weekly in August,
> which may be useful to some.
>
> Please reply on-list with your virtualization plans.
> Would talking about this on a conference call Wed night 7:30p be useful?
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Thanks,
Donald Norman