G+_Eric Kelling Posted September 9, 2014 Share Posted September 9, 2014 So I want to play around with virtual machines. A friend of mine told me to do a bare metal setup with a hypervisor. I want to learn and I have a spare desktop but know near nothing about vm. Of the ones out there, what would be the most illiterate user friendly hypervisor (if there is one)? Reading material suggestions welcome lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Robert Lane Posted September 9, 2014 Share Posted September 9, 2014 I would recommend Proxmox for a hypervisor, you get great performance with 'bare metal' VM servers. If you want something for your desktop as well, I recommend VirtualBox as it runs on all major platforms and there's a lot of community support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Travis Hershberger Posted September 9, 2014 Share Posted September 9, 2014 I use Proxmox at work and wish we used something different. All it does is provide a web gui on top of kvm and openv that other standard (OpenSUSE) distributions do just as well. If you want to learn about type-1 hypervisors then I'd say install the "big 3" in a multi-boot (Hyper-V, VMware, and XenServer.) They all have free packages to use, so the cost to check them out is right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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