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I am a beginner so please bear that in mind if you choose to answer the question.

I have a HP Proliant Dl580 G5 with the following specs : 4x Six-Core XEON 2.4GHz E7450 128GB RAM
4x 72GB SAS 15K

I was wondering how i can go about installing or hosting 4 Ubuntu Server OS running concurrently on it? ie Virtualization ? or Via KVM ? Also If i should look into Xen or some other medium to make such a system possible.

Thank you in advance for your time and patience.

Varad Poddar
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Yes, to run 4 different systems on a single hardware, you'll need virtualisation. KVM is a virtualisation system, it means "Kernel Virtualisation Manager". The choice of a virtualisation platform among KVM+libvirt, Xen, ProxMox, VirtualBox or commercial products such as VMWare is up to you and depends upon your goals.

  • If you prefer using a graphical interface, and plan to use your VM mostly for development purposes, VirtualBox is fine.
  • If you want to run servers and have access to more powerful features, KVM + virt-manager is pretty good and still easy to use.
  • For large scale systems, ProxMox or VMWare are probably better.
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