G+_Dan Hockey Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 Open source visualization server software. There's lots to pick from, what would be a good place to start. I tried xenserver but you have to pay to register it before it will work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jason Perry Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 Open source or free to use? I am a fan of ESXi but I hear good things about Xen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Drew Moseley Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 I previously did a bit of research on this and narrowed my choice to OVirt or Proxmox but I've not gotten around to actually deploying anything yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Walter L. McCormick Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 Spent 20+ hours trying to get xen to work. Never did get a vm to run. Installed proxmox and had a vm going instantly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jason Perry Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 Hak5, has episodes on getting a hypervisor up and running. I know they have it for Xen, and I am sure if I spent time looking I could find videos for proxmox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Walter L. McCormick Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 Darren used to use proxmox in his older episodes at the fire house. I don't remember if he said why he switched to using xen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Dan Hockey Posted March 16, 2016 Author Share Posted March 16, 2016 Darren did an episode on xen that's why I tried it. I just may dive in and give promox a try and see what happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Walter L. McCormick Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 I believe proxmox is based on KVM. So your going to get better performance going that route. I tried giving straight KVM a try and had no luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Walter L. McCormick Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 Proxmox was way easier to install and operate than xen. It is essentially a modified version of debian Linux, so pretty easy to handle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Dan Hockey Posted March 17, 2016 Author Share Posted March 17, 2016 Thanks, Looks like Promox will be the next one I'll give a try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Steve Martin Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 XenServer is free and open Source. I don't know who told you that you have to pay for it, but they were wrong. I've been using it free for several years now. Did you go to http://xenserver.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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