Home Lab Hypervisor?
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What are you guys using?
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Hyper-V when I'm using Windows 10.
KVM/oVirt when I'm using Fedora. -
XenServer, considering moving to KVM to see how it works.
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Going to start off with KVM. Plan on trying to get that off of the ground this weekend.
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KVM is a lot of fun. I'd recommend that before Hyper-V if you're just starting out.
Why? Because Hyper-V just works, and it's so easy and visually easy. KVM is less so. This will be better for learning virtualization.
But if you do use Hyper-V in your test lab first, that's not a bad thing.
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My little lab uses Hyper-V with CentOS VMs
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@NerdyDad said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:
Going to start off with KVM. Plan on trying to get that off of the ground this weekend.
@Tim_G said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:
KVM is a lot of fun. I'd recommend that before Hyper-V if you're just starting out.
- What "flavor" of KVM - are you CentOS/Fed 25 etc? (I know they're pretty much the same)
- What is the "Xen Orchestra" equivalent for KVM?
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@DustinB3403 said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:
XenServer, considering moving to KVM to see how it works.
I'm in the same boat right now. Really like KVM on my Korora laptop.
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@FATeknollogee said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:
What "flavor" of KVM - are you CentOS/Fed 25 etc? (I know they're pretty much the same)
I've had awesome success and experience with KVM on Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop.
This is the process I used here, plus it contains some good informational links that will help you along the way. They've helped me.
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I'm going with CentOS 7 server with KVM/qemu since that's what my book is going with.
As far as XO goes, I have no idea and would have to refer to one of our veterans for that.
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You could go all out and setup oVirt. You can manage it via a web browser.
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Virt-manager vs oVirt, which one is considered more "up to date"?
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@FATeknollogee said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:
Virt-manager vs oVirt, which one is considered more "up to date"?
For virt-manager, it depends on the distro you will be using since you will be installing from that distribution. Not sure about oVirt.
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XenServer but I'm switching to KVM
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@FATeknollogee said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:
Virt-manager vs oVirt, which one is considered more "up to date"?
Neither is out of date.
If you are familiar with ESXi C# Vsphere client to manage hosts use Virt Manager, if you want something like ESXi Virtual appliance to manage multiple hosts go for oVirt which is web based solution.
Virt-manager targeted at manually managing couple of hosts, oVirt is solution for many hosts.
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Is oVirt a virtual appliance like XOA?
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Two KVM servers on CentOS 7.
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@FATeknollogee said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:
Virt-manager vs oVirt, which one is considered more "up to date"?
To me, oVirt was slow. My one host has 8 cores and 96GB RAM and it took a long time to do stuff. That could be because I did the all in one install. But I'm assuming that's what most people here will be doing.
I find straight KVM easy and super fast. I have a smaller LV for the OS and then a large LV for the qcow2 images. A full clone of a template takes about 2 seconds (thin provisioned qcow2).
You can do some pretty cool stuff with libvirt. I have a template that updates nightly without manually spinning up the disk. I have a clone script that clones the template and sets the MAC, then runs virt-customize to set the hostname in the VM, and then finally starts it.
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@FATeknollogee said in Home Lab Hypervisor?:
Is oVirt a virtual appliance like XOA?
you have a number of options from installing it on dedicated machines to installing it as an OVA. here the docs
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@aaronstuder I've not a home lab. for personal needs I use KVM as my machines run linux on bare metal.
