[GTALUG] Setting up a VM host

[Jason Shaw]

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On Aug 26, 2016 10:38 AM, "Giles Orr via talk" <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
>
> If I wanted to set up a host for a bunch of headless VMs, what's the
> OS/Hypervisor to run these days?  I'm doing this out of curiosity and
> for testing purposes.  I don't exactly have appropriate hardware - an
> i5 with 16GB of memory - but it should be sufficient to run 5-10 VMs
> for my very limited purposes (private network, none of the VMs will be
> public-facing).  QEMU/KVM looks like the best choice for a FOSS
> advocate?  Other recommendations?  I could particularly use a good
>

I've had great success with Vagrant and VirtualBox. Not the most FOSS
friendly, but it makes for a good way to programmatically define a network
of virtual machines. It sure beats manually spinning up a dozen vms.

https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/virtualbox/

Jason
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