What is recommended virtualization to use on OpenSuse?

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Hi guys,

I am new here. I was looking for a VPS and was wondering do you recommend to install Opensuse on KVM?

Thanks

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Hi, welcome

A little confused here. You want a VPS and inside that VPS you want to run openSUSE as a VM?

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If you select a VPS, it will have decided what virtualization technology to use.
Various VPS will also have different procedures for deploying different distros on their platform.
And, at least for openSUSE you have various options depending on your needs… on some platforms pre-configured images but if you build from scratch any currently supported version would be acceptable.

Or, are you mis-using the terminology “VPS?”
A VPS is a <service> and not something you would typically deploy on your own machines.

TSU

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If you’re asking about virtualization in general,
I did a recent presentation introducing basic virtualization concepts to beginners and how to select the virtualization technology most appropriate for your needs.

If that is your actual question, this is my slide deck…

https://slides.com/tonysu/beginners-guide-to-virtualization#/

TSU

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Thank you guys, (I think would be good to add a ‘thank’ button)
I am new in Linux and just want to try out OpenSUSE. So I am looking for VPS server provider to have an OpenSUSE hosted on. My question was if KVM provider is good to run OpenSUSE on it.

Thanks

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Take a look at the “star” button at the bottom of a post.

My question was if KVM provider is good to run OpenSUSE on it.

I’m running KVM on this openSUSE Leap 15.0 system.

One of my virtual machines is in turn running Leap 15.0 and Tumbleweed (dual booted). I’m mostly doing this so that I can test updates in a virtual environment before applying them to the real machine. Both Leap 15.0 and Tumbleweed seem to be running pretty well under KVM. But, of course, I might not be running the software that particularly interests you.

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openSUSE runs on just about any Provider, as long as you have sufficient control of the virtual machine to install a distro of your choice… which is the case for cloud providers like AWS, Azure, Rackspace (and there are many others, I’ve only mentioned the top 3 in size and longetivity). For any Provider that doesn’t grant that kind of access, your options are generally limited to the pre-built images or application layers that are provided for you.

TSU

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Thank you guys, I did sign up with these guys (Routerhosting). I will see how it plays. :slight_smile:

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Please do report back with your experiences,
It’s typically useful for others who follow in your footsteps,

TSU

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Thank you guys, I did sign up with these guys (vps hosting usa)serverwala. I will see how it plays. :slight_smile:

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That would be my cue, I guess. :slight_smile:

I noticed that the »JEOS« concept (just enough operating system) has gotten a little stale on the openSUSE and SUSE websites/forums. Years ago I thought it would be a great idea to have some minimal, verified and ready-to-go images of openSUSE/SLED/SLES for convenient jump starts into virtualization or into easily testing stuff out with different versions of our fav distro. Kiwi was supposed to provide things like that, if I remember correctly (…or was it OBS?).

When I search for »jeos« on the SUSE website these days, I get the commercial option(s). Bugzilla has already tickets about Jeos/Leap 15.2 which is interesting. One can get an inside glance into the development and maintainance of these Jeos images.

With openSUSE, the official links seem to be in the Leap/JEOS tab on the »Get openSUSE« website. Has anybody had any experience with these images on a small/testing scale? The JEOS-specific documentation seems to be a bit slim. Yet, is it advisable to start off into virtualization that way and save a few gigabytes of disk space? Thanks!