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.

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.

Don't know if this helps, but just thought I'd share a perspective.

Check out:

Vagrant - https://www.vagrantup.com/

Puppet - 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

Docker - https://www.docker.com/

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 12:43 PM, <techlists@phpcoderusa.com> wrote:

Thanks!!

On 2014-10-09 14:23, Sean Roe wrote:

Im going to have to go with JD. Proxmox is the best opensource VM
solution period.
Sean

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 11:40 AM, JD Austin <jd@twingeckos.com> wrote:

Proxmox, your preferred Linux OS with Virtualbox, or using your
preferred Linux OS's KVM/Qemu virtualization will all work about as
well. Proxmox gives you a nice interface to manage it all; there
are some 'free' VMWare versions you can use as well.

-- JD Austin
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jd@twingeckos.com

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 11:12 AM, <techlists@phpcoderusa.com> wrote:

I provided the wrong specs here is the specs of the box I want to
use

i3-3220 with visualization

http://ark.intel.com/products/65693/Intel-Core-i3-3220-Processor-3M-Cache-3_30-GHz

[2]

8GB RAM.

Thank you for your help!!

Keith

On 2014-10-09 13:01, techlists@phpcoderusa.com wrote:
Hi,

I'd like to configure a test box for LAMP development. What I
have in
mind is setting up multiple VM's on the box and loading a different
distro in each VM. Probably only need 2 or 3 VMs. The number
might
grow over time. Will not be configuring X on any of the VM's -
they
will be LAMP servers only.

I seem to recall someone saying I would need a base system on the
box
and then load the VM's on top of that. Or can I use something
like
Mint and load the VM's on top of that? Is there a disadvantage to
doing it with Mint as the base system?

The box is an i3 with visualization -

http://ark.intel.com/products/81018/Intel-Core-i3-4030U-Processor-3M-Cache-1_90-GHz

[3]
It has 4GB of RAM which I assume might not be enough.

This box will only be used for testing so I assume each VM will
only
need 1GB of RAM and will probably use much less.

Any direction is much appreciated.

Thanks!!

Keith
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