[NTLUG:Discuss] Virtualization recomendations (was Video card recommendations)

[Ted Gould]

On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 08:05 -0500, Bob Netherton wrote:
> >  I know something in this space will work out in
> > the long run.  KVM, maybe.
> 
> Where are the commercial distributions with respect to KVM ?   Most
> were lining up for the Xen train, at least before Citrix acquired
> XenSource.  I know that we're still strongly committed to it.   I
> don't see that much commitment to KVM out of the commercial guys, but
> someone please tell me if I'm wrong.

Ubuntu is going the KVM route:

    http://news.cnet.com/8301-13580_3-9867657-39.html

Redhat has done a significant amount of the development on the
virtualization manager and other tools that are built around KVM.

From a user perspective, I've really enjoyed using VirtManager/KVM on my
computer with Hardy.  I've never gotten VMWare to work entirely right
(reliably and having to rebuild on every kernel upgrade was nuts).  I
haven't used VirtualBox.

For those curious how to setup KVM on their Ubuntu Boxes, here's the
Wiki page that I used:

    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM

Now I all need is more RAM! ;)

		--Ted