Do u like ur hypervisor

[_Dr_Eye_]

ansr this pole on what hyper-visor u use

[Sir Asvald]

Done

[Drak3]

For the most part, Hyper-V is adequate for what I use my Linux VMs for. But I'd like it if Hyper-V could allocate multiple physical cores, and passing through GPUs was easy on the few Windows versions that even support it.

 

You should also make the poll multiple choice, as a few of us might use VMs with different host operating systems. Especially as Hyper-V is Windows exclusive. I'm one of few, but I also use Ubuntu and OSX.

[Ithanul]

No multi choose on the hypervisors?

 

Yeah, I deal with more than one.

These the ones I deal with:

VirtualBox (on home computer)

VMware and ESXi at my drill weekends.    Sometimes you want to strangle the bugger who set it up.     More specifically the dumb nugget who decides heck one thread good enough for a server.  ....I really want to strangle that one.

[_Dr_Eye_]

1 minute ago, Ithanul said:

No multi choose on the hypervisors?

 

Yeah, I deal with more than one.

These the ones I deal with:

VirtualBox (on home computer)

VMware and ESXi at my drill weekends.    Sometimes you want to strangle the bugger who set it up.   

cant change pole once it is started 

[Drak3]

I forgot about Kernal Virtual Machines. There's really two main options for those:

UnRAID

Generic KVM utilities on desktop Linux distros.

[Lord Nicoll]

I love my ESXi, Why would I use something I didn't like after all. I am a bit confused as to why VMWare is there on it's own, a bit of a redundant option when ESXi and Workstation are basically the two options. 

[BSpendlove]

7 minutes ago, Ithanul said:

More specifically the dumb nugget who decides heck one thread good enough for a server.  ....I really want to strangle that one.

I consulted a school a few weeks back, standard DC replication.. Both running slow... 1 core... Naughty IT admin who got a slap on the wrist! Something as stupid as that, didn't surprise me if they had 2 DC's on the same vm host... lool

[M1k3y]

Using KVM at my local hackerspace, which I have to say astonishing good performance and hasn't failed me once.

 

Also I like the concept of nested virtualization, although then you will loose a LOT of performance on the additional layer.

[Drak3]

5 minutes ago, Lord Nicoll said:

Why would I use something I didn't like after all.

Work.

[Lord Nicoll]

1 minute ago, Drak3 said:

Work.

Then that isn't really you using it, that's your work using it, you're just tagging along. I wouldn't use anything other than ESXi because

1; It's what I know best and there is no point using something I don't know how to use

2; Its the one I prefer, it does all I want from it (well, not the free one but I manage) so I wouldn't use another one, installing crap on servers is already a fap as is haha. 

I'm sure there are people who's work uses something they don't like, without an express clarification from the question, we can only lightly paw at the question. Perhaps the question should be broken up more with the "for work" and "for fun/other reasons users" separate. 

[Sir Asvald]

6 minutes ago, JayKay3000 said:

All - Meh. Does the job. Better than having a thousand real machines.

True. I got myself an actual server. Converted all my physical servers into VMs. 

 

Running 4 VMs on one physical server.

 

[Ithanul]

4 minutes ago, BSpendlove said:

I consulted a school a few weeks back, standard DC replication.. Both running slow... 1 core... Naughty IT admin who got a slap on the wrist! Something as stupid as that, didn't surprise me if they had 2 DC's on the same vm host... lool

Yeah, what was bad.  All the virtual servers where running on one thread.

....Ever try to work a Exchange with one thread....lag, lag, lag, lag.  Talk about just wanting to find the peeps who push the image down and ask "Why!?".  And, these are individuals being paid six figures.  I just shake my head at times.

 

Want to talk about wack, our unit was helping the police station research a new server for them and the fire department.  They let us look at their server.  O god, it was super bad.  Poor thing was overloaded with VMs way past what the CPUs could handle (old OSes too).  No redundancy too.

[Altecice]

You forgot one, Xencenter

 

I use a load of them for work (ESXi,Hyper-V and Xencenter). I just recently moved from ESXi to Hyper-V for my home server.

[TetraSky]

Vmware player/workstation(used Virtualbox before as well) and Meh.

Wish there was one that could truly share the resources from the host, especially the GPU, without lag or through emulation.

[EPENEX]

I've always used VirtualBox, and it has always worked for me.

[Not_Sean]

At my last job we used VMware and it was really good, currently using Virtualbox as we don't do as much VM's anymore and are moving more to hosted servers so just a nice RDP connection and a phone call to get things running. 

[_Dr_Eye_]

6 hours ago, TetraSky said:

Vmware player/workstation(used Virtualbox before as well) and Meh.

Wish there was one that could truly share the resources from the host, especially the GPU, without lag or through emulation.

you can use unraid

that worked well for me 

[TetraSky]

4 hours ago, _Dr_Eye_ said:

you can use unraid

that worked well for me 

Does unraid allow me to have the Linux "host" always present in the background while opening a Windows VM within it? Because if it's a complete "switch to other OS" kind of deal without much possibility to interact with each other, I might as well just reboot the PC and use the bootloader to switch from windows to Linux at that point.

[AJJaxNet]

19 hours ago, Altecice said:

You forgot one, Xencenter

It's XenServer ^^

[Drak3]

7 hours ago, TetraSky said:

Does unraid allow me to have the Linux "host" always present in the background while opening a Windows VM within it? Because if it's a complete "switch to other OS" kind of deal without much possibility to interact with each other, I might as well just reboot the PC and use the bootloader to switch from windows to Linux at that point.

UnRAID operates while any and all guest operating systems are online. But UnRAID is an OS specifically for NAS and KVM.

Many Linux distrobutions can do KVM, they just require a bit more work.

[Altecice]

On 22/08/2017 at 6:47 PM, CatBoiler said:

It's XenServer ^^

 Derp my bad, The management is called XenCenter

[AJJaxNet]

Just now, Altecice said:

 Derp my bad, The management is called XenCenter

Yep  I'm using XenOrchestra these days instead of XenCenter tho

[LoreleiAurora]

I love my hypervisor, but you didnt list it here.

Its Openstack on KVM