What's the best/easier way to make a VM machine

[grimreeper132]

I have a server that I want to run multiple VMs on, what is the best OS to do this on??? And if it's not obvious how to do it on it, how do I???

VMs I wanna run

Windows 10 pro

2-3 Ubuntu Server VMs

and a couple others

 

[Sauron]

It doesn't matter, just use a good hypervisor like vmware or virtualbox.

[TheLaserCucumber]

VMware ESXi 6.5 is really good, though I don’t know how much RAM, CPU Cores and OSs you can run on the free version

[WereCatf]

Me, I just like to use libvirt (it uses qemu+kvm as its backend) under Linux -- it's free, performant and works damn well, and has no restrictions on the amount of CPUs, RAM, OSes, disks or anything like that that you can use. It doesn't provide a fancy web-based frontend for creating and managing VMs, though, only a desktop app and a CLI-interface.

[grimreeper132]

Sorry for the delay I had some unexpected shit on

 

On 7/22/2018 at 6:23 PM, Sauron said:

It doesn't matter, just use a good hypervisor like vmware or virtualbox.

Ok I think this is the best solution for my problem running on ubuntu. Do you have a preference between the two if yes, why???

[Sauron]

4 minutes ago, grimreeper132 said:

Sorry for the delay I had some unexpected shit on

 

Ok I think this is the best solution for my problem running on ubuntu. Do you have a preference between the two if yes, why???

Virtualbox is open source, vmware is not and some features are exclusive to the paid version. On the other hand vmware tends to perform a bit better in terms of graphics.

[grimreeper132]

1 hour ago, Sauron said:

Virtualbox is open source, vmware is not and some features are exclusive to the paid version. On the other hand vmware tends to perform a bit better in terms of graphics.

I think VMWare is the one to go with, but only once I have fixed issues with linux desktop (e.g. not being able to run VNCServer or system Monitor, but dealing with them tomorrow)

[Jarsky]

On 7/23/2018 at 5:31 AM, TheLaserCucumber said:

VMware ESXi 6.5 is really good, though I don’t know how much RAM, CPU Cores and OSs you can run on the free version

ESXi 6.0+ free, the only hardware restrictions is 2 physical CPU's, and a max of 8 vCPU's assigned per VM. No restriction on OS' or number of VM's. 

[Electronics Wizardy]

9 hours ago, grimreeper132 said:

Sorry for the delay I had some unexpected shit on

 

Ok I think this is the best solution for my problem running on ubuntu. Do you have a preference between the two if yes, why???

if your on ubuntu use kvm, its just a easy install and works well and its the most intergrated into linux, and has all the features you could need.

[JaimeAOC]

If you run Windows 8/10 Pro or higher you can also install Hyper-V (for free!) for creating and running Virtual Machines. Hyper-V runs faster then VMWare Workstation thanks to the type of Hypervisor being used, but networking is a bit of a b*tch if you don't have two NIC's in your host machine.

 

Otherwise you could use Virtualbox or some of the other suggestions

 

 

[jkirkcaldy]

19 hours ago, JaimeAOC said:

If you run Windows 8/10 Pro or higher you can also install Hyper-V (for free!) for creating and running Virtual Machines. Hyper-V runs faster then VMWare Workstation thanks to the type of Hypervisor being used, but networking is a bit of a b*tch if you don't have two NIC's in your host machine.

 

Otherwise you could use Virtualbox or some of the other suggestions

 

 

There is also a Hyper-V OS that you can install for free. The catch is that I think realistically you need another windows PC to manage it. But it is completely free, no limits, no trial. Just free.