From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Charles Duffy Subject: Re: KVM + virt-manager: which is the perfect host Linux distro? Date: Sun, 03 May 2009 20:56:08 -0500 Message-ID: References: <49CBC961.1010305@poboxes.info> <49CBD0F5.80900@wpkg.org> <49CBD452.5080205@poboxes.info> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kvm@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:42006 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751134AbZEDByn (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 May 2009 21:54:43 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1M0nOC-0001tK-Bf for kvm@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 04 May 2009 01:54:40 +0000 Received: from 143.166.197.6 ([143.166.197.6]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 04 May 2009 01:54:40 +0000 Received: from Charles_Duffy by 143.166.197.6 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 04 May 2009 01:54:40 +0000 In-Reply-To: <49CBD452.5080205@poboxes.info> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Evert wrote: > Can I conclude from that that Debian is the best host distro to go for? > Better than Red Hat & Gentoo? I'm not really convinced there's a big enough difference that it matters -- particularly on a production system where you intend to stick to stable, well-tested software. That said, many of the bleeding-edge tools coming out of Red Hat's Emerging Technologies group (such as libguestfs) are developed principally for Fedora; if you're looking to live on the edge, that might be the way to go. Ubuntu also has their own virtualization group; if you want something where your distributor makes an effort to keep maintained packages available (and accept that this means that they'll lag behind latest upstream a bit), it's not a bad place to be either.