[mdlug] hypervisor/vm

[David Hensley]

Thanks for the info and links...much to consider.

As far as demos go, with so many options and variations, it seems like we
could have a whole series of presentations. One on each: Xen, KVM,
ESXi(vmware), etc. For that matter one could do multiples on each of these
as well: Xen paravirt vs Xen full-virt, etc.
Lotta topics, lotta work :)

Personally, given the knowledge of the users on this list, I'd rather have
detailed info sessions than a demo per se. I think most of us know the
fundamentals of these technologies, and have used them in various contexts,
and rather than seeing "how to install/administer X" I'd benefit more from
a "X works like this, Y works like this, and this is how each will affect
your usecase"  or "How using X can benefit you" sorta talks.

I'm new here and so have lurked for a few months; do we have problems
finding ppl to present at meetings?  It seems there hasn't been much
activity on the mdlug admin list.

David


On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:58 PM, gib at juno.com <gib at juno.com> wrote:

> If only we could find someone to do a demo in a meeting . . .
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------
> From: "Carl T. Miller" <carl at carltm.com>
> To: "MDLUG's Main discussion list" <mdlug at mdlug.org>
> Subject: Re: [mdlug] hypervisor/vm
> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 18:46:08 -0400
>
> 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
>
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