Thank you both for your replies. I just realized that I had a misunderstanding about the vmware license. I'm going to give that one more try.<br><br>This is the first that I've heard about LXC. That's very interesting functionality, but I have to read up on it more. KVM and VirtualBox are probably good choices if ESXi doesn't work out for me.<br>
<br>Thanks again.<br><br>Josh Kite<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 1:09 PM, John Scott <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:John.Scott@peak10.com">John.Scott@peak10.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">If you want easy with x86 compatibility and not have to change
your base OS preference, check into VirtualBox. You can get the host
hypervisor via apt-get on ubuntu and there is good documentation available on
<a href="http://virtualbox.org" target="_blank">virtualbox.org</a>.</span></p>
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[mailto:<a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org" target="_blank">ale-bounces@ale.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Joshua Kite<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, November 06, 2010 11:02 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [ale] Virtualization question</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello all,<br>
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I am looking for advice on how to set up some virtual environments for use at
home.<br>
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I have a server, and I want it to have two distinct functions. One is
network filtering, etc. using squid and some other applications. The
other is my basic web/file/print server. I may want to play with
something else in the future, so virtualization seems like the right choice.<br>
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The hardware that I have available is a dual xeon hyperthreaded 32 bit
machine. And that's the problem. I would like to run a bare-metal
hypervisor, but all of the current ones seem to be for 64-bit only. That
makes sense, but it doesn't work for me. I actually installed the
previous version of VMWare's ESXi only to find out that the free license will
only allow me to make use of one of the processors once the trial period is up.<br>
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So the next option appears to be a light OS for a host system with a hypervisor
running inside of it. I have run Ubuntu for both desktop and server for
the past 5 or so years, but I am willing to consider other distributions for
both host and guest for the network filtering OS. I'll probably use
Ubuntu for the web/file/print functionality since I'm most familiar with it.<br>
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I have been fighting with my home server for weeks after a crash, and I'm kind
of tired of playing with it, so I am looking for a very dumbed down, easy
solution with step by step instructions for installation and automatic startup
of guests.<br>
<br>
Do any of you have recommendations?<br>
<br>
Thank you very much,<br>
<br>
Josh Kite</p>
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