Hyper-V vs KVM for running Ubuntu + Windows

Question

I am currently planning to set up a server for virtualisation. It will be running about half Windows 2012 servers and half Ubuntu. Would it be better to use hyper-v or KVM as the hypervisor as I am not sure which would give the best performance.

I think you be hard pressed to see a performance difference, so I'd go with what you are most familiar with. — tony roth, Apr 16 '13 at 16:46
Thanks, I just wanted another opinion before I did anything stupid. — Autumnal, Apr 16 '13 at 16:47

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 26 '13 at 20:19

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I myself would go with Hyper-V (especially if 3.0) as long as MSFT verifies that your Ubuntu version will run as a VM...

See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc794868(v=ws.10).aspx for Hyper-V on W2008[R2] Linux guest compatability (Cannot find the same sort of article for Hyper-V on 2012, but hopefully there will be one soon)

answered Apr 26 '13 at 20:19

Will Dennis

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well Will I guess we won't know what he's using in this case! – tony roth Apr 26 '13 at 22:36

Hyper-V vs KVM for running Ubuntu + Windows

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