Virtualization Question ...

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 3:26 AM, Roger Oberholtzer <roger at opq.se> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 07:00 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>
>> KVM/Qemu can do this easily.  I've got 6 servers at $DAYJOB doing this
>> with about 50 guest OS's.
>
> Interesting. How do you then interact with them? I am guessing all are
> running a non-graphic non-Windows OS. Do they each provide some services
> on unique ports? Please, do tell. I have been wanting to set this sort
> of thing up for improved (one might assume) software testing. But I have
> not seen how to get these things to do what I want in some nice general
> fashion when they are not started interactively.

Nope.  Actually, 47 of the 50 are running Windows7 (sadly).  I
interact with the linux VM's with ssh, and Win7 with either VNC or
(cygwin) ssh.

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