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Re: hypervisor choices on Debian Testing amd64



Le Friday 30 July 2010 23:20:04 H.S., vous avez écrit :
> I am thinking of installing a couple of virtual machines on my Debian
> Testing amd64 system. I am trying to find out what choices in
> hypervisors do I have to accomplish that. One open source choice is Xen.
> Vmware is another choice, but not open source.
> 
> I am sort of banking towards Xen. There are instructions on the web on
> how to install the amd64 version of it on Testing. I intend to install
> at least Windows XP and Windows 7. I presume there will be factors at
> play what kind of virtual machine I install, x86 versus x86_64, on my
> AM3 socket (using AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 B55 Processor) motherboard. (?)
> 
> Any other choices? What do people on Debian usually use? Can you give
> tips what to look out for?
> 
> Thanks.

The most straight virtualisation solution on Debian testing (squeeze) is KVM.
You can use virt-manager and libvirt to manage the VMs.

PS:
virt-manager can also manage Xen VMs.

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