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<p><tt>Virtual-manager that's part of the libvirt package is
functional enough for most use.</tt></p>
<p><tt>I use Virtual-manager backed by xen to run between 5 and 10
VMs on a couple of machines.<br>
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<p><tt>If you have the hots to setup a complete server you could
download xenserver.</tt></p>
<p><tt>You could put RDO on a system and install OpenStack.</tt></p>
<p><tt>Openstack has a nice GUI and management environment but is a
bit heavyweight to just put up a few VM's<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/26/2016 01:55 PM, David Thornton
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<div dir="ltr">I've used proxmox . It got me up and running with a
gui quick.
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<div>But I've also use virtual box ( oracle : yuck ) and that
also got me up and running quick.</div>
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<div>"professionally" I sit in front of a lot of vmware, but
that's closed / for pay / proprietary / expensive. ( but
feature rich )</div>
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<div>(I've not used libvrt / rhev / kvm so my perspective is
limited)</div>
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Proxmox is KVM based.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 11:34 AM,
Lennart Sorensen via talk <span dir="ltr"><<a
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class="">On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 10:37:37AM -0400, Giles
Orr via talk wrote:<br>
> If I wanted to set up a host for a bunch of headless
VMs, what's the<br>
> OS/Hypervisor to run these days? I'm doing this out
of curiosity and<br>
> for testing purposes. I don't exactly have
appropriate hardware - an<br>
> i5 with 16GB of memory - but it should be sufficient
to run 5-10 VMs<br>
> for my very limited purposes (private network, none
of the VMs will be<br>
> public-facing). QEMU/KVM looks like the best choice
for a FOSS<br>
> advocate? Other recommendations? I could
particularly use a good<br>
> HOWTO or tutorial if anyone knows of one. Thanks.<br>
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</span>I certainly like kvm. Works well. Finding examples
for how to start if<br>
isn't hard. I am personally NOT a fan of libvirt and the
associated<br>
crap it provides and much prefers just making a shell script
to pass<br>
the right arguments to qemu myself.<br>
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As long as you have VT support (Most if not all i5s do, as
long as it<br>
is on in the BIOS/UEFI), I would think that should be fine.
16GB would<br>
certainly allow you 10 1GB or 5 2GB VMs without any issue.
Creative<br>
people would try and use KMS (kernel memory sharing I think
it is),<br>
to merge identical pages between VMs to save some
resources. It's a<br>
neat feature.<br>
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Depending on what you intend to do with them and put in
them, some people<br>
might use containers instead (like lxc and such). It has
its own<br>
limitations but uses less resources. If you are looking to
run different<br>
OSs though, then containers are not what you want.<br>
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