[TriLUG] Home Lab Recommendations, Part Deux

[Alan Sterger via TriLUG]

Hello TriLugers,

Another lost soul looking for home lab recommendations.  I have an Intel 
Core2 Quad core Q9550 computer with 8 GB of ram, Gigabit ethernet 
running on a 256 GB SSD.  I can also add more SSDs and/or spinning rust 
as needed.

My requirements are to run Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) v6.x (RHEL 
w/mods) with Oracle Database 11i.  I also need to run Windows 7 (32-bit) 
Pro, Windows 7 (64-bit) Pro and possibly Windows 10 Pro.  Any VM not 
needed would be shutdown.

I've used two Type-2 hosted hypervisors, VMware Workstation and 
VirtualBox each hosted on Windows 7.  Both hypervisors running OEL VM 
environments seemed a little slow and I/O bound. Probably due to the 
underlying Windows host.

My thought was to implement a Type-1 hypervisor, headless and use VNC 
when an interactive session is required.  But I'm hearing other things 
like Docker, libvirt, containers...

With my mix of Linux and Windows requirements, let me know if I'm on the 
right track OR point me in a faster, better direction.

Cheers,

-- Alan Sterger