I have been running Libvirt with the KVM / Qemu Linux hypervisor. I have had success with Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2003, and many instances of Linux without issue. I have not done any BSD installs to date, so I can't speak to a BSD install under KVM/Qemu. The drawback with the virt-manager tool is that it seems to be Linux only (someone tried a port at one point, but I can't seem to find it). The virsh shell rocks via ssh session from your smart phone though, so you might not need it. Recent Ubuntu server releases make it simple to install by adding it as a pre-defined package selection for a VM host during install, but it might be good to set it all up under Slackware so you know all the moving parts :-) Kelly Black > Wed Nov 30 2011 08:54:54 AM CST from "Ryan Coleman" <ryanjcole at me.com> >Subject: [tclug-list] Virtual Platform leads > > > Guys, > > My day job is looking for a good VM lead and I thought of you. Well, ok, I >thought you could get me some good leads. > > We're looking into an alternative to VMWare vSphere 5, one that will run >under whatever OS (we're not sold to Windows for our base configuration) and >will support any OS on top of it (BSD, Linux, Windows, etc.). > > Links to whitepapers and pricing (if applicable) would also be appreciated. >We're going to utilize most of this machine to run various video surveillance >solutions but will also reserve some smaller slices for our network >communications (DNS, DHCP, ipTables, Nagios, etc.). > > Thanks! > > -- > Ryan > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20111130/a590d744/attachment.html>