[ale] Virtualization recommendations

[crawford.rainwater at linux-etc.com (Crawford Rainwater)]

Greg:

I would recommend KVM on Ubuntu 10.04LTS.  There is some nice documentation on getting the host system going as well as configuration files in place.  However, I will also warn it is more CLI oriented than GUI unless you use something like virt-manager or similar.

The Ubuntu documentation can be found at 
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM

which should get you started.  As for FreeNAS and Asterisk, that is another thread for discussion with others. ;-)

HTH and FWIW.  Also to note I receive the ALE email list in Digest format, so pardon any delays in responding in advance.

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----- Greg Clifton <gccfof5 at gmail.com> wrote: -----
> 
> Along the lines of John Heim's OP, I am also interested in "dipping my
> toe"
> into virtualization for the first time. I have a Dell SC440 system
> with
> Core2Duo CPU, so I have hardware virt support. What I would like to do
> is
> set up a NAS with FreeNAS and a PBXIF Asterisk instances on this
> machine. My
> question is should I use KVM, ZEN, ProxMox, etc? What is easiest to
> set
> up/administer? What is most reliable? Recommendations appreciated.
> 
> Greg Clifton