Greetings, On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Chris Davies <chris-use...@roaima.co.uk> wrote: > P. J. McDermott <p...@nac.net> wrote: >> I'd like to set up virtualization on a home server with a Debian >> GNU/Linux squeeze amd64 host and squeeze and wheezy amd64 guests. > > I'd recommend KVM and libvirt/VMM.
I'd go for Xen. Not a virtualization expert, but i've installed a simple dom0 on squeeze with a sid PVM, on async raid1 with LVM; all through the debian instaler, no trouble. YMMV > What I like about KVM/libvirt is that it (now) handles LVM as a volume > pool, so I don't need to use large files in the filesystem to hold > guests' backing store. You can use LVM with Xen too. > What I do like about KVM is its ability to run non-aware guests. I have > lost track of whether Xen would let me run an instance of Windows 7, > for example. Xen supports HVMs, if the host CPU supports virtualization. You can also use pv-drivers to speed things up. Just my 2c. HTH, Nuno -- "On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CADqA9uYgy7DVA0C52Coa9HeRKj=0hva3fjljirt9bje6sto...@mail.gmail.com
