KVM-Host OS recommendation

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I am about to migrate a server installation (one OS) to a newer hardware and wish to enable/use KVM. So the hardware is fixed (https://www.hetzner.de/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex40) , now I got the dilemma of choosing an OS.

Functionalities I am expecting to be met:

Apache 2 (2.2.12 or later) or any HTTP-Server with SNI Extension
- PHP 5
- MySQL 5
KVM virtualisation
SSH deamon
Nagios capability for monitoring every vServer
Security updates for at least 5 years
Low overhead (usage of system ressources)
No licensing fee

The focus of the selected OS is, besides those basic features, to be stable (OS as well as repo packages) and long time supported (5yrs or longer).

You only really have two choices here. Evaluate them both. – Michael Hampton Jan 30 '14 at 18:17 — Michael Hampton, Jan 30 '14 at 18:17

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:14

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Any enterprise Linux distribution will work for you. You're not setting a high bar or standard. Red Hat/CentOS... Debian... Even Ubuntu can do this.

Otherwise, reference: How should an IT department choose a standard Linux distribution?

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:14

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answered Jan 30 '14 at 16:53

ewwhite

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Are you sure Debian would be up for the task. AFAIK its lifecycle for a supported version is 3yrs as actual version + 1yr as former version. – rechbergerd Jan 30 '14 at 17:32

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