2016-07-04 4:30 GMT-04:00 Cedric Bosdonnat
Ciao!
On Sun, 2016-07-03 at 17:07 -0400, Ciro Iriarte wrote:
Xenserver/ESXi/Proxmox/Acropolis are out because of software R6 and having a single host, so I'm turning to openSUSE. I've worked a lot with Xen years ago but I understand the guys that get all the attention these days are KVM and docker, and Xen might be a second class citizen.
Given I would like: - Software R6 on the host
Not sure what that is...
- Virtualization nesting
KVM has some nested virtualization support, depending on your hardware. See this blog post for some help on it:
https://kashyapc.com/2012/01/14/nested-virtualization-with-kvm-intel/
- PCI passthrough
Both Xen and KVM can do it.
- Some permanent VMs - Lots of temporary VMs
Would you suggest to go with XEN or KVM or Virtualbox in this specific scenario at this point in time?, can I assume docker will place nice with any of them?.
I would suggest KVM + virt-manager + libvirt. If you need a web UI, you can also try Kimchi. Docker has a different use case than a plain old VM: docker can't do system containers and you would only have one app in one container... and remember containers aren't secure, you need to put them in a VM to be on the safe side ;)
Hope that helps,
-- Cedric
Thanks for your comments, by R6 I was refering to BTRFS on raid 6 + disk encryption. This box will works as a NAS also. Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://iriarte.it -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-virtual+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-virtual+owner@opensuse.org