<div>In my two cents - I think you should use either Ubuntu or Fedora with KVM and Virt-manager or AQEMU with KVM or old-QEMU, as I think KVM is a superior hypervisor model compared to Xen or something like vmware. If nothing else that Xen, while not dead, does seem to be going more "away" from mainstream Linux, although many cloud providers are currently using it as their base hypervisor. VMWare isn't bad, but in order to get the same level of functionality that KVM provides, you'd likely need a licensed version rather than their free player.</div>
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<div>Kaerka<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Crawford Rainwater <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crawford.rainwater@linux-etc.com">crawford.rainwater@linux-etc.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">Greg:<br><br>I would recommend KVM on Ubuntu 10.04LTS. There is some nice documentation on getting the host system going as well as configuration files in place. However, I will also warn it is more CLI oriented than GUI unless you use something like virt-manager or similar.<br>
<br>The Ubuntu documentation can be found at<br><a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM" target="_blank">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM</a><br><br>which should get you started. As for FreeNAS and Asterisk, that is another thread for discussion with others. ;-)<br>
<br>HTH and FWIW. Also to note I receive the ALE email list in Digest format, so pardon any delays in responding in advance.<br><br>--- Crawford<br><br>The Linux ETC Company<br>10121 Yates Court<br>Westminster, CO 80031 USA<br>
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<div class="im">><br>> Along the lines of John Heim's OP, I am also interested in "dipping my<br>> toe"<br>> into virtualization for the first time. I have a Dell SC440 system<br>> with<br>> Core2Duo CPU, so I have hardware virt support. What I would like to do<br>
> is<br>> set up a NAS with FreeNAS and a PBXIF Asterisk instances on this<br>> machine. My<br>> question is should I use KVM, ZEN, ProxMox, etc? What is easiest to<br>> set<br>> up/administer? What is most reliable? Recommendations appreciated.<br>
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