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I've been using VirtualBox for several years to run Windoze on a Linux host. I'm in a position where I'm going to be installing that VM on a new box and am considering my virtualization options. Does anyone have any recommendations? What are the relative advantages/disadvantages of KVM, Xen, etc?
One thing... if I have to pay money for it, it's out. I think that probably disqualifies VmWare Server.
vmware server is free, but a bugger to get going normally, on many distros. Personally I recommend KVM, currently architecting a project to deploy over 1000 KVM VM's. Works well, integrated directly into fedora and redhat, easy to set up on other distros.
vmware server is free, but a bugger to get going normally, on many distros. Personally I recommend KVM, currently architecting a project to deploy over 1000 KVM VM's. Works well, integrated directly into fedora and redhat, easy to set up on other distros.
Chris can you let me know in networking terms is Xen Better or KVM.
Xen has VIF support and works amazingly.
I couldnt find that for KVM. I agree KVM is better but its bad on the Networking Side because you got to play with ifcfgs to work on it.
Please let me know if i am wrong
Chris can you let me know in networking terms is Xen Better or KVM.
Xen has VIF support and works amazingly.
I couldnt find that for KVM. I agree KVM is better but its bad on the Networking Side because you got to play with ifcfgs to work on it.
Please let me know if i am wrong
I found that as KVM can use the native stack on the host it's so so much simpler. Anything you can do on a linux network, you can provide to the guests as their network. Simple. You don't have to play with network configs in the slightest, and TBH I thought that the libvirt side of things was used extensively under Xen too, so would be the same config tools and files to achieve much of this... Personally I DO use my own networking on the host, as libvirt bridges run STP by default and other things I don't like, but in a simple system you don't need to use anything other than pointy clicky virt-manager to configure everything up to a point.
Last edited by acid_kewpie; 11-21-2010 at 03:46 PM.
One thing that's driving me nuts at work is an institutional view that VMware ESX is the only viable option for virtualization. Most notably because they have a site license for ESX, and they struggle massively to accept that as virt becomes more and more of a standard offering of a OS / processor, the way in which the virtualization should be seen is increasingly more like the choice of memory allocation, disk IO drivers or something... just part of what the operating system is. It's not a special service any more, and VMware certainly know that, but far too many of their customers don't, and they still think the fact that they can give lots of money to VMware and get back various amounts of installation media and have the explicitly have specialists in it and all that, means that the "free" offerings like KVM are somehow inferior within the range of their feature sets. VMWare's profits more and more now come from the management wrap around the enterprise view of it, and that's not actually anything to do with virt itself, just monitoring, deployment, migration etc...
I found that as KVM can use the native stack on the host it's so so much simpler. Anything you can do on a linux network, you can provide to the guests as their network. Simple. You don't have to play with network configs in the slightest, and TBH I thought that the libvirt side of things was used extensively under Xen too, so would be the same config tools and files to achieve much of this... Personally I DO use my own networking on the host, as libvirt bridges run STP by default and other things I don't like, but in a simple system you don't need to use anything other than pointy clicky virt-manager to configure everything up to a point.
virt-manager definitely uses a bridge and cannot work without it till where I remember.
I might be wrong, but I dont think VIF is available in KVM.
Can you point me out to some networking guides in KVM where you dont have to modify the ifcfg-eth0 and setup a Bridge ?
virt-manager definitely uses a bridge and cannot work without it till where I remember.
I might be wrong, but I dont think VIF is available in KVM.
Can you point me out to some networking guides in KVM where you dont have to modify the ifcfg-eth0 and setup a Bridge ?
Well my guide would just be ' use virt-manager', not sure what else to suggest...
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