Have you looked at RedHat's KVM hypervisor? You should be able to get it with Red Hat or its many variants like Scientific Linux. Just install base OS and the Virtualization software group. Launch the Manager with 'virt-manager'. The cool thing about KVM is that it's part of the kernel.
Rich Now proud owner of RHCSA certificate. On Oct 1, 2012 2:23 PM, "Mark Rogers" <m...@quarella.co.uk> wrote: > I have a couple of Fujitsu Siemens Econel 100's that have failed. They're > good solid boxes but I think the problem is on the motherboard. > > So I'm looking to replace the motherboard with something that will play > nicely with VMWare vSphere, but as this is just a "play thing" I can't > afford the luxury of looking at the hardware that VMWare support. > > What I think I need is (a) a CPU which supports virtualisation (don't they > all these days?), (b) onboard network and graphics that vSphere will > support, (c) onboard RAID that vSphere will recognise (I have an IDE boot > drive and 4x SATA HDD for my virtual machines; RAID 10 would suffice as > it's better performance than RAID5). > > I have a working Econel 100 that I've got up and running which is working > OK but fails on (a) (it's an old 3GHz Pentium D), and I'm guessing fails on > (c) as although I have a RAID10 array set up I can't see it in vSphere, > just the four individual drives. This is the first time I've looked at > vSphere so (c) could be human error. > > I'm keen to get vSphere up and running as I already have several virtual > Linux boxes running but using an Ubuntu/VirualBox host which is an overhead > I could do without, and vSphere seems more "grown up" (albeit without a > native linux admin client, grrr!) > > Mark > > -- > Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 > Registered in England (0456 0902) 21 Drakes Mews, Milton Keynes, MK8 0ER > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Peterboro mailing list > Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/**mailman/listinfo/peterboro<https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro> >
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