recommendations on virtualization software

[Alan Johnson]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Mark Ellison <mark at ellisonsoftware.com>wrote:

> Many thanks to everyone responding on this thread.  Based upon the
> information provided my plan is work with KVM!
>

Yeah, that's mostly what I was going to recommend too.  The KVM GUI tools
are sweet too (at least in Ubuntu), so if you don't mind having a few extra
packages on the host, which surely you don't if you are running Fedora, then
that should make your life much easier.

On final tip: use the host to do all the disk management via LVM.  It is
fairly easy to grow file systems with a little down time on the guest if you
do that.

Also, a story for the masses: VMWare Server 2 just gave my huge headaches
recently because it includes a private set of Tomcat binaries in it's
package to run its management webapp.  This is not good form, but
potentially justifiable.  The real problem is that they were using some of
the standard ports and the default shutdown string, which kicks your ass if
you have a standard tomcat running: why does my production tomcat instance
stop every time I try to stop VMWare?!  Quite a bit of digging and some
editing of read-only files from the VMWare package fixed it.  Not a problem
if you are not running Tomcat for something on the host, but that kind of
thing won't happen with a mature open source project.

Of course, you might ask why am I running VMWare on hosts that are running
production anything, particularly Tomcat?  Let's not go there, OK? =)  I
didn't make the mess, I just inherited it.

-- 
Alan Johnson
alan at datdec.com
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