Make a Virtualbox only OS.

[Turtleinahafshel]

i want to make a os tailored around virtualbox. what is the best way i could do this. one option i thought could be me installing arch or something of the sort and uninstalling everything not needed. what could be a good way to do this. are there any other options. thanks for the help.

[Electronics Wizardy]

1. Don't use virutal box, it sucks for this

 

2. This already exists and is calle da hypervisor. Look at at linux with kvm, esxi, xenserver, proxmox, hyper-v server.

[Turtleinahafshel]

10 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

1. Don't use virutal box, it sucks for this

 

2. This already exists and is calle da hypervisor. Look at at linux with kvm, esxi, xenserver, proxmox, hyper-v server.

Which is the best free one that has a low overhead or bare metal.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, Turtleinahafshel said:

Which is the best free one that has a low overhead or bare metal.

those above are all free and very low overhead.

 

What are you doing with this?

 

What hardware?

 

Im assuming you want this headless.

 

What storage?

 

Id probably try out proxmox first.

[Sauron]

1 minute ago, Turtleinahafshel said:

Which is the best free one that has a low overhead or bare metal.

Arch is good if you want the latest and greatest, if you want something really stable I'd look at debian instead. Xen is more dedicated to this purpose specifically.

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, Sauron said:

Arch is good if you want the latest and greatest, if you want something really stable I'd look at debian instead. Xen is more dedicated to this purpose specifically.

use kvm over xen, its more actively developed and faster.

 

 

[Turtleinahafshel]

3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

those above are all free and very low overhead.

 

What are you doing with this?

 

What hardware?

 

Im assuming you want this headless.

 

What storage?

 

Id probably try out proxmox first.

I was planning to try it on a laptop with on single hard drive and 2-3 OSES. I was planning to put them into VHd format and then boot it with virtual box. That way I have arch as a base os and ubuntu or whatever virtualized. 

[Turtleinahafshel]

2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

use kvm over xen, its more actively developed and faster.

 

 

Does kvm have advanced features and configuration.

[Sauron]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

use kvm over xen, its more actively developed and faster.

Yes, but KVM isn't a standalone os.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, Sauron said:

Yes, but KVM isn't a standalone os.

but neither is any of these other ones. You still need a kernel to manage storage, network, interface, boot and other things.

 

2 minutes ago, Turtleinahafshel said:

I was planning to try it on a laptop with on single hard drive and 2-3 OSES. I was planning to put them into VHd format and then boot it with virtual box. That way I have arch as a base os and ubuntu or whatever virtualized. 

Then id just install fedora or ubuntu(meh arch being a pain and rooling distros can/will break stuff)

 

Then use kvm in linux. Its better than virtual box.

[Turtleinahafshel]

3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

but neither is any of these other ones. You still need a kernel to manage storage, network, interface, boot and other things.

 

Then id just install fedora or ubuntu(meh arch being a pain and rooling distros can/will break stuff)

 

Then use kvm in linux. Its better than virtual box.

i would want a cli only os this way i could type in a command and boot the os if i use kvm what is a cli only os that is good. ps i want the os to be able to have a gui but doesn't need one ie arch. this way the guest oses can have a gui.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, Turtleinahafshel said:

i would want a cli only os this way i could type in a command and boot the os if i use kvm what is a cli only os that is good. ps i want the os to be able to have a gui but doesn't need one ie arch. this way the guest oses can have a gui.

if you want the guest to have a gui on the laptop, then the host needs a gui.

 

Otherwise, install something like proxmox and you can then control it from a web browser.

 

Most linux distros can be used without a gui, suck as ubuntu, fedora, centos, but for this use i think you want one.

[Turtleinahafshel]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

if you want the guest to have a gui on the laptop, then the host needs a gui.

 

Otherwise, install something like proxmox and you can then control it from a web browser.

 

Most linux distros can be used without a gui, suck as ubuntu, fedora, centos, but for this use i think you want one.

okay makes sense. thanks for all the help.

[Sauron]

7 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

but neither is any of these other ones. You still need a kernel to manage storage, network, interface, boot and other things.

Doesn't xen have its own distribution?

[Electronics Wizardy]

21 minutes ago, Sauron said:

Doesn't xen have its own distribution?

you still need a linux kernel to use it.

[Sauron]

8 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

you still need a linux kernel to use it.

yeah sure, but I thought it had its own custom linux based os

[Electronics Wizardy]

3 minutes ago, Sauron said:

yeah sure, but I thought it had its own custom linux based os

there are some distros with it preinstalled, but you can install it like any other package, nothing special.