<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)">It depends. What is the purpose of your testing? Proxmox, is a virtual server manager, much like VMware ESXi & XenServer they simply manage and monitor VM's. I would use (and have used) Proxmox to manage servers in a VLAN (just one example). However if you are developing/configuring LAMP servers and testing them individually for optimization (more DevOps) I would stay with VirtualBox (or Docker assuming your bare metal Linux kernel has LXC, kernel 3.0 or later) and look into provisioning with Vagrant, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack or even BASH. Vagrant builds the base box and then hands it off to a provisioner.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)">To give you an example currently at my work we develop and maintain large enterprise web applications on LAMP servers. One of our systems consist of a Blade enclosure (bare metal), OS/Hypervisor/manager is VMware ESXi, running VM's configured in a VLAN. On top of this we use Vagrant and Puppet to provision, test, implement, & destroy LAMP servers as we need them. Because we maintain the entire LAMP config in code we can version control all of our servers in Git plus the base box (pick your distro). The entire versioned codebase including the base ISO's can fit on a 32GB usb drive. I can rebuild these LAMP servers on any environment as long as it has enough physical memory and compute speed. regardless of the hypervisor/vm manager.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Don't know if this helps, but just thought I'd share a perspective.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Check out:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Vagrant - <a href="https://www.vagrantup.com/">https://www.vagrantup.com/</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font color="#0b5394" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font color="#0b5394" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Puppet - <a href="http://info.puppetlabs.com/download-puppet-enterprise-PPC-1.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Blu-Jae_Puppet&gclid=CjwKEAjw5NihBRCZmdLkuuTHyWYSJACtCY0JoA5k8d3FtnsJ-Lb9DOKsKGCBo2AXRRB37aqC49xN-RoCnIfw_wcB">http://info.puppetlabs.com/download-puppet-enterprise-PPC-1.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Blu-Jae_Puppet&gclid=CjwKEAjw5NihBRCZmdLkuuTHyWYSJACtCY0JoA5k8d3FtnsJ-Lb9DOKsKGCBo2AXRRB37aqC49xN-RoCnIfw_wcB</a><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font color="#0b5394" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font color="#0b5394" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Docker - <a href="https://www.docker.com/">https://www.docker.com/</a><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 12:43 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:techlists@phpcoderusa.com" target="_blank">techlists@phpcoderusa.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thanks!!<span class=""><br>
<br>
On 2014-10-09 14:23, Sean Roe wrote:<br>
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Im going to have to go with JD. Proxmox is the best opensource VM<br>
solution period.<br>
Sean<br>
<br>
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 11:40 AM, JD Austin <<a href="mailto:jd@twingeckos.com" target="_blank">jd@twingeckos.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">
Proxmox, your preferred Linux OS with Virtualbox, or using your<br>
preferred Linux OS's KVM/Qemu virtualization will all work about as<br>
well. Proxmox gives you a nice interface to manage it all; there<br>
are some 'free' VMWare versions you can use as well. <br>
<br>
-- JD Austin<br></span>
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On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 11:12 AM, <<a href="mailto:techlists@phpcoderusa.com" target="_blank">techlists@phpcoderusa.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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I provided the wrong specs here is the specs of the box I want to<br>
use<br>
<br>
i3-3220 with visualization <br>
<br>
</span></blockquote>
<a href="http://ark.intel.com/products/65693/Intel-Core-i3-3220-Processor-3M-Cache-3_30-GHz" target="_blank">http://ark.intel.com/products/<u></u>65693/Intel-Core-i3-3220-<u></u>Processor-3M-Cache-3_30-GHz</a><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
[2]<span class=""><br>
<br>
8GB RAM.<br>
<br>
Thank you for your help!!<br>
<br>
Keith<br>
<br>
On 2014-10-09 13:01, <a href="mailto:techlists@phpcoderusa.com" target="_blank">techlists@phpcoderusa.com</a> wrote:<br>
Hi,<br>
<br>
I'd like to configure a test box for LAMP development. What I<br>
have in<br>
mind is setting up multiple VM's on the box and loading a different<br>
distro in each VM. Probably only need 2 or 3 VMs. The number<br>
might<br>
grow over time. Will not be configuring X on any of the VM's -<br>
they<br>
will be LAMP servers only.<br>
<br>
I seem to recall someone saying I would need a base system on the<br>
box<br>
and then load the VM's on top of that. Or can I use something<br>
like<br>
Mint and load the VM's on top of that? Is there a disadvantage to<br>
doing it with Mint as the base system?<br>
<br>
The box is an i3 with visualization -<br>
<br>
</span></blockquote>
<a href="http://ark.intel.com/products/81018/Intel-Core-i3-4030U-Processor-3M-Cache-1_90-GHz" target="_blank">http://ark.intel.com/products/<u></u>81018/Intel-Core-i3-4030U-<u></u>Processor-3M-Cache-1_90-GHz</a><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
[3]<span class=""><br>
It has 4GB of RAM which I assume might not be enough.<br>
<br>
This box will only be used for testing so I assume each VM will<br>
only<br>
need 1GB of RAM and will probably use much less.<br>
<br>
Any direction is much appreciated.<br>
<br>
Thanks!!<br>
<br>
Keith<br>
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