Best personal virtualization platform?

swain

Hi all!

I just recently upgraded from my cluster of lowend VM's to one dedicated server and i would like to set up some VM's for little side projects. My host machine is running ubuntu 14.04 and would love some insight as to what you guys are running for your personal virtualization setups. The last time I setup virtualization on a headless box I ended up using virtualbox with virtualboxphp and the performance seemed lackluster.

Any insight would be awesome ! thanks

budi1413

Why not using proxmox?

david_W

I use qemu-kvm + docker for smaller projects.

Amitz

Proxmox has always been my choice in such a case.

KuJoe

I run ESXi if I need something advanced and plan on running Windows. I run OpenVZ on the servers where I know I'll only ever run linux VPSs and need something fast, solid, and flexible.

mik997

running 3 Ubuntu 14.04 VMs on vSphere6 free on a lowend server and it's rock solid .. very happy with VM benchmark performance also

javax1

Proxmox.

I use it for my software development needs and it's great. I run KVM vms with CentOS installed on them.

LiteServer

I would vote for Proxmox. Great all-in-one solution, and easy to setup.
Other option you could consider is using Virtualbox on a Ubuntu host. Works pretty good too :-)

RIYAD

Use proxmox

WebProject

Proxmox is control panel and not virtualization, I like KVM and Xen HVM virtualizations.

globalRegisters

@WebProject said:
Proxmox is control panel and not virtualization

Thank you. I don't get it when people recommend Proxmox when asked about virtualization technology choices.

Rallias

I like just using libvirt.

What you can do is setup libvirt on your server, you know, all those shenanigans, the install libvirt and qemu-kvm, and then you can use a program called 'virt-manager', which allows you to control those machines remotely.

robinhood2894

Why not using proxmox?

budi1413

@globalRegisters
@WebProject

Well he said:

@swain said:
personal virtualization setups

dragon2611

+1 for Proxmox, Supports KVM VM's + LXC containers, is stable and it works.

As for people moaning about proxmox being a control panel and not a hypervisor whilst that is techincally correct it's all nicely packaged together to make using KVM/LXC a doddle and it's free.

Also the op asked for a platform not a specific hypervisor.

WebProject

the best for personal usage will be XenCenter, as you can create the Xen HVM VPS and VMs will have own kernel, kernel modules and almost like dedicated servers.

agoldenberg

+1 for proxmox. Use it for personal and business and love it!

msg7086

I use ESXi myself, free and solid.

rajprakash

OVZ

Raymii

I like running bare LXC/LXD containers nowdays on ubuntu. My second choice is proxmox, specially if you want more enterprisey features like shared storage and clustering. it has a nice web ui as well.

CFarence

@WebProject said:
the best for personal usage will be XenCenter, as you can create the Xen HVM VPS and VMs will have own kernel, kernel modules and almost like dedicated servers.

So very similar to KVM, in which case I agree with every one else. Proxmox since it supports KVM and LXC