Migrating from CentOS 6 to Ubuntu 18.04 questions

[Karl Auer]

On Thu, 2020-06-18 at 09:53 -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
> Right now my main desktop machine on my home LAN is running CentOS 6,
> which is nearing its EOL, so I need to think about upgrading to
> something else.
> 
> One option is CentOS 7 and another option would be Ubuntu 18.04.

Why not CentOS8? That's the current version.

>  One of the major reasons I have been using CentOS on my home LAN is
> that CentOS can be installed entirely from local media

True, but for updates you will still need Internet access. Depends how
current your install medium is.

> DHCP service (ISC DHCP server)
> BIND 9 (local DNS server)
> KVM/QEMU (eg "native" Linux virtualization)
> libvirt and libvirt-client (specificly, CLI tools for dealing with
> VMs and the 
>      ability to use LVM volumes as disks for VMs)

I've had all that working on 16.04, I doubt it's gone backwards.

RedHat seems to have deprecated virt-manager, make of that what you
will.

Regards, K.

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