[clug] VM Preferences

Geoff Swan shinobi.jack at gmail.com
Sat Jun 6 23:14:37 GMT 2009


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... (an unrelated question - what happens
if you send to the list without putting [clug] in the subject? :) )

cheers,

--
Geoff

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