[mdlug] Poll: what virtualization products are you using?

[Ryan Allen]

I use VMware fusion on a MacBook, and VMware player on a PC, but I don’t usually find myself wishing I had much more on-site horsepower than what a handful of raspberry pis can handle. So nothing nearly as cool as your setup sounds here!

Just yesterday I nearly pulled the trigger on renting the biggest EC2 machine (it’s virtualized so it counts, right? lol) I can get for a few mins to accelerate some video encoding.  Napkin math suggested it might speed up the job from 3+ hours to about a minute, but sadly my up is so slow (~1MB/s) that factoring in transport time for raw video, it would actually take longer overall :c 

This is one of those few weekends where I wish I had a rack full of metal like Carl :)

-Ryan

> On Jan 9, 2022, at 9:42 AM, Carl T. Miller <carl at carltm.com> wrote:
> 
> On 1/9/22 9:26 AM, Carl T. Miller wrote:
>> Just a fun thing to see what we're doing for doing
>> for virtualization.  Please list as much info as you're
>> comfortable with sharing.
>> 
> 
> At home I use KVM on a rack-mount server for most
> of my vms.  It has 16 cpus and 128 GB of ram with
> 180 GB raid1 drives and a 9 TB usb drive.
> 
> I'm also breaking in a new server with 12 cpus and
> 31 GB of ram with 140 GB raid1 drives.
> 
> Then I have a laptop running KVM for a couple of
> small vms used for testing and/or playing games.
> 
> There are 2 VPS servers which I don't need to manage
> out on the internet somewhere.
> 
> In addition I am running VirtualBox on a friend's
> computer because she wants Windows 10 as her
> primary OS.
> 
> For the most part everything "just works" so I'm
> happy with this setup.
> 
> c
> 
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