[wellylug] Setting up & running Virtual systems

[Jethro Carr]

On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 15:43 +1200, phreadde at ihug.co.nz wrote:
> 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 :-)


I've been playing around with qemu this weekend, and it seems to be easy
to use, and manages to run Linux without any problems. I can't comment
about performance though, since I haven't had a chance to do load
testing yet...



-- 
Jethro Carr

www.jethrocarr.com
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