[clug] VM preferences

[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.

btw - this is my first post to the list, so my apologies if there are
any hiccups in formatting sending etc...

cheers,

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Geoff

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