On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 10:37:37AM -0400, Giles Orr via talk wrote:
If I wanted to set up a host for a bunch of headless VMs, what's the OS/Hypervisor to run these days? I'm doing this out of curiosity and for testing purposes. I don't exactly have appropriate hardware - an i5 with 16GB of memory - but it should be sufficient to run 5-10 VMs for my very limited purposes (private network, none of the VMs will be public-facing). QEMU/KVM looks like the best choice for a FOSS advocate? Other recommendations? I could particularly use a good HOWTO or tutorial if anyone knows of one. Thanks.
- QEMU and VirtualBox. They both use KVM. - VirtualBox practically needs no manual. It's all mouse clicks. The only time I actually had to read something, was to convert VMDK to VDI format (using VBoxManage on command line in Windows) - QEMU requires manpage and shell script to store all the options you discovered. :-) I'm not sure about "headless". From memory, I seems to have closer association with VirtualBox than with QEMU. -- William