I second KVM. I've been running it on Ubuntu Lucid with LVM managing storage for about a year now and it has worked very well for me. When I've needed them, I've even had assorted versions of Windows and MS-DOS running on it. However, I can't comment on native Linux GUI management tools, because I'm happy with virsh on the command line.
Tony Cowderoy On 02/10/2012 06:07, Richard Forth wrote: > > 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 > <mailto: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 <mailto:Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk> > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro > > > > _______________________________________________ > Peterboro mailing list > Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
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