[ubuntu-uk] Upgrade from 6.06LTS!

[Tyler J. Wagner]

On 2012-11-27 18:39, Liam Proven wrote:
> 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.

I agree with you that task #1 would mean more effort on your part. But I do
hope you aren't assuming that ESXi is necessarily more secure or stable
than KVM on Linux.

Also, there's no locking down to do. Ubuntu is very secure by default.
Install Ubuntu server, install openssh-server, install libvirt-bin, create
a VM. The only listening port is SSH. KVM's virt-manager supports doing
everything over SSH tunnels. Which means you get SSH key auth for free,
instead of configuring a user/password system.

Regards,
Tyler

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