[wellylug] Setting up & running Virtual systems

[phreadde at ihug.co.nz]

Hi All!
    I have a need to "save" some half dozen Win95/8 boxes
with development environmnents on them so we can ditch the
hardware.
    Does anyone on the list have experience in setting up a
number of virtual systems on a Linux base?
    There is no need for huge performance or concurrency,
just being able to run one of the systems at a time with a
speed in excess of a PII/300 will be fine. Each of the old
systems has at most 3Gb of disc space with 64Mb RAM tops.
    I have a P4/2.66GHz system available with a 160Gb HDD
and I can crank the RAM to 4Gb if necessary.
    Debian is the preferred Linux platform (I use it
already) and I have found it has kvm (18) on the unstable
base, as well as QEMU.
    Any help would be appreciated, off list if you prefer.
    TIA, Cheers, Peter :-)