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Originally Posted by satimis
Hi folks,
What I need is a reliable OS, light weight, running as host with GUI browser and filer running for file management. All servers installed on the Virtual machine will be headless. Installation/configuration will be done via the host. I need a GUI browser for Internet browsing for help and techical doc during config. I need a filer managing the files download.
What will be a good combination qemu and *.OS? Thanks
B.R.
satimis
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Well I have some VMs running on CentOS 5, some on OpenSuSE 10.3 and some on Ubuntu server. The Ubuntu sever does not have a GUI installed and all my VMs are headless and all *BSD. I didn't want Linux either but if I didn't go that way for the host OS I am severely limiting my choices. All of my hosts run VMware server because the other VMs seem limited in choice of OS and processor, etc. I have had great luck with all of these host OS's and my SuSE box has been in production for over a year now. CentOS seems to perform quite well also and has a GUI installed by default but you could just run in runlevel 3 if you don't need the GUI.
The day VMware supports *BSD as a host OS I am there.
-Tim