I am planning to set up a virtualization host to host a Linux
workstation
VM. It may also host a Windows VM down the road but not on the initial
list. I'm looking for suggestions as far as:
* oVirt or CentOS? (Did I miss a CentOS equivalent of RHV somewhere?)
I'm
not interested in running VMware. Is it easy to upgrade oVirt or is it
disruptive to do so?
* Does anyone have real world experience running SPICE over a WAN with
VPN? I hear great things about SPICE .. but haven't heard much about
how
it performs over a WAN .. which in this case is the Internet with an
SSL-based VPN.
I have plenty of Linux experience and am very comfortable with a
command
line and config files, but wouldn't mind a graphical interface for some
of
the virtualization components. I may expand to a second virtualization
host at some point, but it is not in the initial plan.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Barry
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Barry,
I am in to 3 months of experimenting with a lab machine that I use as
my desktop. I have used Centos 7.5 host and am using kvm. I have an
Intel I7-7700 with 64 gigs of memory, two M2 cards each with 250 gigs,
and a RAID 6 array with an LSI card. I have two other centos 7.5 guest
virtual machine and one windows10 virtual machine. After I figured
out how everything works ..... I love it.
The biggest problem I had was building a network bridge, (br0) I never
got it to stay working until I turned off NetworkManager on the host.
I am planning a production hypervisor in the next 3 to 6 months that
will have a mail server, database server, and gateway server as guests.
I also had some difficulty with gnome on the host when I started, but
finally got that fixed. I experimented with the Cinnamon desktop and
was very impressed as to they way it manages multiple guests and
desktops. I ended up switching back to gnome because that was all I
needed, and my fingers are used to it now.
Hope this helps,
Greg Ennis
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