On 06/28/2014 04:52 AM, Jimmy Thrasibule wrote:
I'm looking to renew my hardware and I'm wondering how Debian can help
me to virtualize my desktop environment.
My first go was to have 2 Intel NUC and 2 screens, one NUC more stable
and one I can play with. I want to use both screens with both
computers so this implies to also have two KVMs.
Then came the idea to virtualize everything. Make both computers a
hypervisor cluster (using Xen or KVM) and run all systems virtualized.
But at which point can this be done for desktop system?
I use VirtualBox to run 3 servers and 1 desktop on an i7-2600s, 8 GB
RAM, SSD system drive, and two ZFS mirrored HDD's for data. I ran dual
head 1600x1200 => 3200x1200 for a while, and seem to recall that the
desktop VM saw it as one big monitor when running full-screen. I
briefly had a single 27" 2560x1440 monitor and this was the best I've
ever seen. My only regret is that my motherboard and RAM are not ECC:
https://pthree.org/2013/12/10/zfs-administration-appendix-c-why-you-should-use-ecc-ram/
HTH,
David