I have a little machine ( AMD Athlon 64 X2 2.1 GHz, 3GB of DDR2, 320GB disk space) that I use as a server,
I would like to convert it as an Hypervisor to host many little Linux Virtual Machines (between 128MB and 256MB of RAM per VM, just for some tests (I'm IT student)), but I don't know what solution choose (I need to host many servers softwares like Apache, Mysql/Postgresql, Samba, etc), I tried many :
VMWare Server: Not bad at all, compatible with all the other VMWare solutions (Workstation, Marketplace), good performances, but the Web UI is really buggy and that don't look very "scriptable".
XenServer: The Management Interface is really good, but I have very bad performances on Linux VM (Ubuntu Server take more than 30min to install instead of ~15min on VMWare server)
ProxmoxVE/OpenVZ: Really good solution, fit in 99% of cases, low memory overhead, fast, just perfect ! But there isn't a lot of compatible distribution (the Last Ubuntu server by example), but that not really a problem in my case, the real problem is the kernel, it's a bit locked, I wanted to create a iSCSI Target VM, but it's possible because that require kernel modification that are not allowed on this type of virtualization (Containers).
What do you recommend me ?
Thank you