[clug] VMs and such...

[Geoff Swan]

I am interested to know what sort of virtualisation people use and/or
prefer?? I am in the process of setting up a
radius server for wireless authentication (EAP-TLS or TTLS or something (not
sure yet)) which has led to needing
to set up a CA which I read a comment somewhere is best done on a machine
that is not usually online or a VM.
Now I *have* :P to have a go at setting up a VM. I have tried with Xen in
the past, but never quite got it working (although
I hear it is very good), I have used vmware at work (on M$) but would like
to stay opensource. So, I started to install KVM.
No good though because my server is a little mini ITX VIA board (no HW
virtualisation support). BTW AFAIK that also
rules out Xen. I think this leaves me with virtualbox and qemu... I am in
the process right now of trying to get one up
running. I had hoped the vmbuilder for ubuntu jeos would build a qemu based
vm for me but it got 90% through and fails (due
to my machine not supporting kvm properly)... so now I am looking at
virtualbox which at first glance seems to be tailored
for gui usage. This is not ideal as I don't have X installed on the
server... maybe back to a manual qemu build.

cheers,

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Geoff

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