Andy Smith wrote: > Hi Victor, Hi Andy! [dd] > > Now I see that a supported minimal headless configuration probably > > does not exist at all. > > I don't think that is correct at all, depending on what you mean by > "supported". You absolutely will find a guide out there to do what > you want, with relative ease I should think. Yes, I guess the https://wiki.debian.org/KVM seems a good guide and even covers the case of a minimal :-) installation. [dd] > > I would say that documentation from Ubuntu is likely to be more > "enterprisey". The other thing is, if you're coming from a BSD > background (you mentioned Bhyve) you probably are a lot more used to > there being one way of doing things and that way being thoroughly > documented. That's correct. Though I must admit the FreeBSD Handbook can be outdated in places as the project is clearly lacking resources. It is still a very good source of knowledge. > Whereas on Linux there tends to be multiple ways and > even the same one can be slightly different on different Linux > distributions. Some Debian documentation is very good too. > > I am using Xen more at the moment, but I generally wouldn't > recommend that to newcomers. I tend to recommend KVM just because > there's so many guides for it out there. I'm currently going to migrate some FreeBSD VMs from bhyve to a linux host. I hope KVM will have no problem with their raw disk images. [dd] > > I would probably just install qemu-kvm and accept the bloat of a lot > of packages that I would never use, use virsh to manage the VMs from > command line, and perhaps over time worm out which packages can be > safely removed. OK, thank you, maybe I'll go this route. -- Victor Sudakov VAS4-RIPE http://vas.tomsk.ru/ 2:5005/49@fidonet
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