<p>Oh them are fighting words! :-) </p>
<p>I use libvirt. I simply run virt-install, point it at a fedora or centos URL and instant VM. With a little bit of XML editing I can create another image that uses that new image as a backing store. Do this three times, boot the VM and edit the network persistence rules (or use qemu-nbd and mount images directly) and I have a test lab. Most of this can be don in a GUI with virt-manager on Fedora or CentOS. </p>
<p>I do this at work regularly to test out cluster software. I love the simplicity and if I screw it all up, no harm no foul ( except when you cause network IP collisions but we won't talk about that). </p>
<p>Any more questions? I can post some handy XML files. I highly suggest learning libvirt, extremely flexible (supports KVM, Zen, OpenVZ and VMWare). Lots of tools built on top of it too. </p>
<p>Dan</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On May 21, 2012 6:19 PM, "David L. Anselmi" <<a href="mailto:anselmi@anselmi.us">anselmi@anselmi.us</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Dan Kulinski wrote:<br>
> Just implement it and go. Nothing teaches like doing. Do you have a<br>
> machine at home? Setup 3 simple VMs. Instant test lab.<br>
<br>
Sounds like yak shaving to me. ;-)<br>
<br>
So which VM platform would you use?<br>
<br>
What tools to build images? I discovered ganeti today, don't know if proxmox builds images or just<br>
manages VMs.<br>
<br>
Guess I'll have to go buy some memory too (my largest machine has 1GB).<br>
<br>
Thanks!<br>
Dave<br>
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