@Michael > May I ask, those of you who do this at home, are you mostly IT staff / pros?
Yes. > Do you do this at home for fun / convenience / cost savings / testing or "all > of the above"? Testing infrastructure setup before I put in in the cloud. > Being able to conveniently / easily create VM's is something I'd like to know > how to do for home and small business office use (and this is the part of the > reason I started attending NLUG). I'd go with ESXi if you want a GUI solution. If you are familiar with the command line, Virtualbox and Vagrant go a long way before getting dedicated hardware for VMs. > So this is achievable for just a few hundred bucks? Totally. Let us know how it goes! Brandon On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 3:33 PM, Michael L <[email protected]> wrote: > May I ask, those of you who do this at home, are you mostly IT staff / pros? > Do you do this at home for fun / convenience / cost savings / testing > or "all of the above"? > > Being able to conveniently / easily create VM's is something I'd like to > know how to do for home and small business office use (and this is the part > of the reason I started attending NLUG). So this is achievable for just a > few hundred bucks? > M > > On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Brandon Bradley <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> I use Xen with headless Deban on a Lenovo TS140 which runs around $300 >> + storage. I use xen-tools to create VMs. It works pretty well for me. >> >> On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Holland Griffis >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > The new NUC 6's take up to 32 gigs of ram. If you get the SYH model you >> > can >> > put an M.2 and a regular ssd in for tons of fast vm storage. >> > >> > On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 9:54 AM, Kent Perrier <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> My work laptop runs RHEL with KVM and virt-manager installed and I use >> >> that for quick VMs to do some fast troubleshooting/issue reproduction. >> >> Its >> >> when I out grow the RAM on my laptop (and the disk too if I really want >> >> to >> >> do anything with Satellite and capsules) is where I have problems. >> >> OpenShift >> >> and OpenStack don't play well in small memory environments. :) >> >> >> >> Thanks for the pointers. I think I will get a NUC with an external USB >> >> hard drive to start with. >> >> >> >> Kent >> >> >> >> On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 3:06 AM, Zachariah Gibbens >> >> <[email protected]> >> >> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> I run Debian and KVM on my laptop from 2014, 64 bit AMD with 4GB of >> >>> ram, >> >>> so it has it's limits. It was $300 back then. Xen or XenServer can run >> >>> inside Virtualbox (sadly KVM cannot, the VMX/SMV flags don't get >> >>> passed to >> >>> the guest, but nothing says you couldn't run KVM on the laptop >> >>> hardware and >> >>> still use it for the everyday too)E >> >>> >> >>> Everything I'm doing with Debian (at least pertaining to your goals) >> >>> Should be doable with RHEL too. The entry point for running KVM is >> >>> easier >> >>> than it's ever been. >> >>> >> >>> On 08/06/2016 12:20 AM, Holland Griffis wrote: >> >>> >> >>> NUCs work fine. Lots of people using them for ESXi and KVM based home >> >>> labs. >> >>> >> >>> On Friday, August 5, 2016, Kent Perrier <[email protected]> >> >>> wrote: >> >>>> >> >>>> I find myself in need of some hardware that can run KVM so I can >> >>>> test/play with some tech here at home. Cost, noise and heat are >> >>>> concerns (I >> >>>> know, I know, pick two....) so old real server class hardware isn't >> >>>> an >> >>>> option. Anyone built a home lab out of intel NUCs, mini-itx based >> >>>> systems, >> >>>> etc that work well? 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