[mdlug] hypervisor/vm

[Carl T. Miller]

David Hensley 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?

KVM on Linux.  Out of the box Red Hat or Centos will provide
most of what you want if you install the virtualization packages.
I use it and love it.

To run a vm within a vm, follow the instructions on this page.
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/NestedVirt

If you'd like a way to do virtualization like the big guys,
consider OpenStack.  You can have it installed and running in
a few minutes using http://openstack.redhat.com/Quickstart.

c