From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tomasz Chmielewski Subject: Re: KVM + virt-manager: which is the perfect host Linux distro? Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:01:09 +0100 Message-ID: <49CBD0F5.80900@wpkg.org> References: <49CBC961.1010305@poboxes.info> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Evert Return-path: Received: from mx03.syneticon.net ([78.111.66.105]:57192 "EHLO mx03.syneticon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760529AbZCZTBQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:01:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: <49CBC961.1010305@poboxes.info> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org