From: Evert <evert@poboxes.info>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: KVM + virt-manager: which is the perfect host Linux distro?
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:15:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49CBD452.5080205@poboxes.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49CBD0F5.80900@wpkg.org>
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Evert schrieb:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am about to install a new host system, which will be hosting various
>> guest systems by means of KVM & virt-manager for GUI.
>>
>> What would be the best choice for host OS distro? Red Hat, or will any
>> mature Linux distro do?
>> Personally I am more of a Gentoo guy, but if there is 1 distro which
>> is clearly better as host OS when it comes to KVM+virt-manager, I am
>> willing to use something else... ;-)
>
> Did you try this one:
>
> http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Main_Page
>
> It's Debian based and have everything you need for virtualisation
> already prepared.
>
To my knowledge Proxmox does not support software RAID (
http://www.linux-kvm.com/content/kvm-83-released-support-amd-iommu-qemu-svn-merge
), unless you configure that manually...
Otherwise Proxmox is promising, yes...
Can I conclude from that that Debian is the best host distro to go for?
Better than Red Hat & Gentoo?
Regards,
Evert
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-26 19:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-26 18:28 KVM + virt-manager: which is the perfect host Linux distro? Evert
2009-03-26 19:01 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-03-26 19:15 ` Evert [this message]
2009-05-04 1:56 ` Charles Duffy
2009-03-30 20:55 ` Bill Davidsen
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