[mdlug] hypervisor/vm

[Dan Pritts]

the GPU suggests that you want direct console access.  If that's the case then ESXi is not the right choice, it doesn't do that.

Were it me, I'd pick hypervisor based on my preferred platform.  Windows guy, use windows.  Linux guy, use whatever tool my preferred distro chooses (which is probably kvm+qemu - that's what redhat and ubuntu do).  

VM in VM, I dunno which hypervisors support that.  It's worth researching to be sure.

you are right, AFAIK there is no hypervisor built into freebsd, at least not yet.  I dunno about the other BSDs but i really doubt it.  

You didn't mention virtualbox, it's another possibility.  

On Oct 22, 2013, at 3:15 PM, David Hensley <nezsez2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Assuming you have say 16gb, a 4,6 or 8 core cpu, with an advanced gpu and
> supported NIC, and you wanted a setup so you could access multiple OSs at
> the same time and even possibly setup VMs in them (so that you had VMs
> running on VMs) which hypervisor/VM would you use for the bare-metal or
> host?
> 
> KVM, Xen, Qemu, MS Hyper-V, Vmware's esxi (VSphere) or what?
> 
> Would you run Linux as the host or MS Windows (*BSD have some issues as the
> host apparently)?