Best Virtual Machine for Linux

piplupgao · January 11, 2014

I will be hosting a website and server and stuff on it (might as well use the extra RAM I have)

Bluethulhu · January 11, 2014

Linux as the guest or the host?

rashdanml · January 11, 2014

Linux as the host: KVM, VirtualBox

Linux as the guest: VirtualBox

IdeaStormer · January 11, 2014

The best VM Linux OS is the OS you know how to use, they're all the same and you can strip them down if they are too big for your VM environment. Heck you can start with the Server Options of the installer and then add packages of what you need till you have your apps/environment setup and call it a day.

madcow · January 12, 2014

Virtualbox is good for running desktop guest OSes on a desktop host OS but for hosting servers on a server, KVM makes more sense.

Docker is another than is starting get more attention and I'm probably going to be trying it soon. It is not full hardware virtualization but will allow you to run Linux in containers much like OpenVZ and LXC. It should be lighter on resources if you only need Linux VMs.