[GTALUG] Thinkpad T420 as a VM host

[David Collier-Brown]

On 06/08/15 12:00 PM, Brent Kimberley wrote:
> ‎Here is the obligatory <X> over LAN\WAN howto:
>
> http://linux.die.net/man/7/amt-howto
>    Original Message
> From: Brent Kimberley
> Sent: Thursday, August 6, 2015 07:43
> To: D. Hugh Redelmeier; GTALUG Talk
> Subject: Re: [GTALUG] Thinkpad T420 as a VM host
>
>
> How is the state of the kvm over lan, Serial over Lan, and drive over lan implementation on the T420 wrt Linux?
>
> Can the keyboard, drive, etc be securely accessed from behind a firewall? ‎
> ‎
>
I just bought a T440p as a dev machine, and am running vagrant -> 
VirtualBox -> CentOS 6 to run in turn a full stack of PostgerSQL,  Java 
on Tomcat, Java and Scala on Play! and angular on the browser.

I barely notice it, and probably will have a couple of inactive VMs set 
up, so I can switch back and forth between unrelated tasks. Build 
performance is good, in part because I'm rarely compiling linking and 
provisioning more than one thing at any given moment! 
Eclipse/Maven/java/Scala are memory hogs, though, so I bought 16 GB of ram.

A much smaller netbook gave good build performance, but was constrained 
to 4 GB, and I needed at least 8 and perhaps 12, so bought a machine 
with slots (;-))

--dave

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