[TriLUG] Best Distro for KVM Virtualization?

[magnus]

Josh Johnson wrote:
> I know RedHat is known for KVM since they bought Qumranet a while 
> back. I like KVM a lot, and have access to cheap RHEL licenses because 
> I work for UNC, but most of my experience is with Debian-based distros 
> and BSD.  I'm about to do a pretty big install and lay a lot of 
> VM-based infrastructure on top of KVM. Is there any reason why I 
> should or shouldn't use RHEL for this? It seems debian/ubuntu's 
> support for KVM is relatively new, should that be a concern? 

I'm surprised that nobody has yet mentioned Proxmox. It's pretty 
outstanding, really, and ahead of RHEL right now. Especially if you're 
building a distributed infrastructure.