-- snip -- On Aug 26, 2016 10:38 AM, "Giles Orr via talk" <talk@gtalug.org> 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
I've had great success with Vagrant and VirtualBox. Not the most FOSS friendly, but it makes for a good way to programmatically define a network of virtual machines. It sure beats manually spinning up a dozen vms. https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/virtualbox/ Jason