[TriLUG] Best Distro for KVM Virtualization?

[John Broome]

Josh Johnson wrote:
> I know RedHat is known for KVM since they bought Qumranet a while back. 
> I like KVM a lot, and have access to cheap RHEL licenses because I work 
> for UNC, but most of my experience is with Debian-based distros and 
> BSD.  I'm about to do a pretty big install and lay a lot of VM-based 
> infrastructure on top of KVM. Is there any reason why I should or 
> shouldn't use RHEL for this? It seems debian/ubuntu's support for KVM is 
> relatively new, should that be a concern?

If it's production stuff and you need the support go with rhel.  i'm 
using kvm on ubuntu and it's fine.  It's nothing highly important, but i 
like it, and haven't had any issues.