![]() ![]() But it also doesn't have some of the IO and hard provisioning issues that Virtualization has. It's similar to Solaris Zones and BSD Containers so it's not really "Virtualization". ![]() Where the Xen scripts handle this pretty well.īut if you don't need any windows support OpenVZ may be a pretty good solution. I've found that if you want a VM on your local subnet via bridging you really have to jump through more manual hoops to create the TAP devices and setup the bridge. So far I must say that I do prefer the network scripts from Xen over the KVM stuff though. And I expect this gap to widen further with time. But KVM seems to be pretty solid and has a much more active community behind it so in some ways it's already surpassing Xen's features. At work we run Xen on CentOS in production and feature wise they are very similar. I've been using KVM for about a month on my new laptop and like it a lot. Main Problem is: the market is changing fast, so whatever I found on the internet was somehow outdated, so can anybody give me some advices? Thanks! OpenVZ: I hate this, it never worked under debian right the way. ![]() I would have to setup a debian-system as dom0 and maintain it. XEN: Currently my favorite, but I found no managment software to use for showing the status of the virtual machines. Bigger problem: You cant store the machines on the internal harddisk, you need a SAN. VMware EsXi: The Problem is the unsupported NIC in the server: It is a realtek-chip and as it is a hosted server I cant modifiy the hardware.Ĭitrix XenServer: I need the mangment Software to run under Linux, the Citrix-Software only runs on Windows. The problem is, I cant decide which system to choose: ![]() The virtual machines will run: PostgresSQL, a Lighttpd+PHP, a Tomcat-Server, a Mail-Server, a static-files Lighttpd. The software should be free, even better open-source. I would prefer a bare-metal-virtualization (so where I dont have to maintain the os of "dom0"). All Linux-VM's will run Debian-Linux, so no need for Windows-Support. I want to use the harddisks (via a kind of LVM) in the server as storage as I got no SAN/IScsi. I got a brand new Intel i7 Server-System with 12GB Ram and I want to consolidate three other linux-servers onto this machine using virtualization. ![]()
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