On 11/30/2011 9:39 AM, kelly cried from the depths of the abyss:
> I have been running Libvirt with the KVM / Qemu Linux hypervisor.  I
> have had success with Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2003, and
> many instances of Linux without issue.  I have not done any BSD installs
> to date, so I can't speak to a BSD install under KVM/Qemu.
>
> The drawback with the virt-manager tool is that it seems to be Linux
> only (someone tried a port at one point, but I can't seem to find it).
>   The virsh shell rocks via ssh session from your smart phone though, so
> you might not need it.  Recent Ubuntu server releases make it simple to
> install by adding it as a pre-defined package selection for a VM host
> during install, but it might be good to set it all up under Slackware so
> you know all the moving parts :-)
>
> Kelly Black

Thanks for the tip Kelly!  I am in the process of consolidating my test 
environment at work, and I think I am going to give this a try. 
Slackware is always my default, so this should work well.  I am happy to 
see 2008r2 works.  A couple of my test boxes need that and other flavors 
of M$, and the rest are mainly Slack boxes.  All my test boxes are 
running on VMware workstation, or a pile/stack of old desktops turned 
server.  Not ideal, and I need to stop the insanity.

The timing of this thread is amazing.  I just finished ordering a bunch 
of parts to refresh a recently unemployed HP server over here just for 
this purpose.  I was going to give VMware vSphere 5 a try, but this 
looks like it more up my alley.

Thanks!

Bob