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      black3dynamite
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      Hyper-V when I'm using Windows 10.
      KVM/oVirt when I'm using Fedora.

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        DustinB3403
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        XenServer, considering moving to KVM to see how it works.

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          NerdyDad
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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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            Obsolesce
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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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              EddieJennings
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              My little lab uses Hyper-V with CentOS VMs 🙂

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                FATeknollogee @NerdyDad
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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.

                1. What "flavor" of KVM - are you CentOS/Fed 25 etc? (I know they're pretty much the same)
                2. What is the "Xen Orchestra" equivalent for KVM?
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                  coliver @DustinB3403
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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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                    Obsolesce @FATeknollogee
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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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                      NerdyDad
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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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                        black3dynamite
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                        You could go all out and setup oVirt. You can manage it via a web browser.

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                          FATeknollogee
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                          Virt-manager vs oVirt, which one is considered more "up to date"?

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                            black3dynamite @FATeknollogee
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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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                              wirestyle22
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                              XenServer but I'm switching to KVM

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                                Emad R @FATeknollogee
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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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                                  FATeknollogee
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                                  Is oVirt a virtual appliance like XOA?

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                                    stacksofplates
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                                    Two KVM servers on CentOS 7.

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                                      stacksofplates @FATeknollogee
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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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                                        matteo nunziati @FATeknollogee
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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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                                          matteo nunziati @Alex Sage
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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.

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                                            scottalanmiller
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                                            KVM on my Scale cluster. KVM on my laptop machine. Hyper-V cluster just spun up this week (three nodes.)

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