[ubuntu-uk] Upgrade from 6.06LTS!

[Liam Proven]

On 27 November 2012 16:30, Alan Bell <alan.bell at libertus.co.uk> wrote:
> On 27/11/12 15:49, Liam Proven wrote:
>>
>> FWIW, I think it is foolish and even suicidal of VMware to depend upon
>> Windows for management, but what can you do...
>
> you can use KVM, it works great on the server side and there is a nice GUI
> client for the Linux desktop that allows you to see what your VMs are doing
> and double click to open a VNC over SSH session to see the console of your
> VM. For a server that is always supposed to perform exactly one function
> then I wouldn't bother with virtualisation (more to fail, slightly slower
> startup time, no particular benefit)

True enough.

I think what would put me off KVM slightly is that it means installing
a Linux system, installing KVM on it, configuring the whole thing,
updating it, locking it down... and then building a VM on top of that.

ESXi is 32MB of code. Install it, connect to it, create VM, done. It
was one of those tools where I did it right the first time myself,
unaided, and was pleasantly surpised at how very straightforward it
was.

Well, OK, TBH, it was ESX not ESXi, but ESXi is much much simpler and
ESX was very easy.



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