Which Linux as a VM host?

[Sysman]

Been there too. I'm sure I had this going at one stage, but my final setup was with mirrored disks and whilst it all worked first time with Windows 7, I just couldn't get the boot loader for Ubuntu to work no matter what. And posting on the Ubuntu forums got zero replies, and nobody here seemed to have a clue either. But I found I liked running W7 so much that I gave up on Linux, and still have a 100GB partition with an unusable Ubuntu on it I should probably put to some other use.

I can happily report progress here, at least with Linux Mint and Windows 7 dual boot. Right at the end of the Mint question and answer session before the installation proper starts, there's a little button which you can press which allows you to specify where the boot block goes. I put it on /dev/sda and on the next boot I got a Grub boot for Mint and 2 versions of Windows 7 (the second one is in fact Windows Server). Picking Windows puts me in the BCDEDIT boot menu from where I can get to Windows 7. It did need a repair (straightforward let it do its stuff and reboot), and the Windows Server boot is still complaining (need to do some manual repair work to get it going).

Since my aim is to lose my dependency on Windows Server, I should be happy at this point, but I am still irritated at how hard it seems to be and how little relevant advice is out there.

P.S. In an earlier venture, Fedora 24 found Linux Mint, declared it was too out of date to upgrade and wanted to stomp on it. Ooh! Linux internecine wars?

 

[Ardesco]

Linux Server - Debian
Linux Desktop - Ubuntu/Mint

HTH

 

[portseven]

i would say anything that uses KVM as a hypervisor, is the up and coming kid on the block.

red hat, cent-os, ubunutu

any of those, use KVM