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post #11 of 19
8/26/12 at 8:07am
Just got with 2008R2 and use Hyper-V. smile.gif

I run Untangle for my home firewall, but I do it on a physical box. I have had it set up as a VM, but I like the idea of having a physical box better. Just makes things easier for me in my home.
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post #12 of 19
8/26/12 at 10:41am
There is another option: OpenSuse. It even has a wizard for setting up Xen virtual machines. thumb.gif While Redhat is big in the US, SuSE is one of the preferred enterprise Linux solutions for Europe.

Or if you just want a minimal base OS for running VMs, then either ESXi or Proxmox.

I certainly wouldn't run Windows Server if you want a minimal footprint host OS. smile.gif
Edited by Plan9 - 8/26/12 at 10:46am
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post #13 of 19
8/27/12 at 5:01pm
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For the record guys, CentOS is not just a "debranded" RHEL. There's shared code and binary compatibility, but they are different projects managed by different organisations.

true, I guess the word rebuild would be better?
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8/27/12 at 6:43pm
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centos is what i use on my vps. couldnt be happier with how light and stable it is.
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post #15 of 19
8/30/12 at 7:08am
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Also, do you use an additional NIC to run pfsense? or do you just use it for the firewall? Been wanting to try out m0n0wall for some time. No idea if it'd be useful in a home network though.

In my environment I use pfSense just as a DNS & DHCP server, rather than a router/firewall, so I just bridge it onto my existing physical NIC.

If you want to use CentOS or Ubuntu, with KVM as your hypervisor, you can use ConVirture to manage them. There's a free/community edition. smile.gif
Edited by parityboy - 8/30/12 at 7:11am
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post #16 of 19
8/31/12 at 2:31am
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If you want to use CentOS or Ubuntu, with KVM as your hypervisor, you can use ConVirture to manage them. There's a free/community edition. smile.gif
You may as well just run Proxmox then
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post #17 of 19
9/1/12 at 2:05pm
@Plan9

Isn't Proxmox limited in certain ways compared to Ubuntu or CentOS with KVM or Xen? That's what I've heard anyway...
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post #18 of 19
9/2/12 at 2:20am
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@Plan9
Isn't Proxmox limited in certain ways compared to Ubuntu or CentOS with KVM or Xen? That's what I've heard anyway...
Not from what I've seen. In fact it's more powerful than ESXi from what I've seen thus far.
I'm still playing around with Proxmox though - putting it through its paces.
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post #19 of 19
9/2/12 at 2:25am
I would run CentOS 5/6 with Xen PV or HVM (if you go along with HVM, you can run Windows domUs smile.gif). As said before, you could run the services inside a VM.
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