I am planning to set up a virtualization host to host a Linux workstation VM. It may also host a Windows VM down the road but not on the initial list. I'm looking for suggestions as far as: * oVirt or CentOS? (Did I miss a CentOS equivalent of RHV somewhere?) I'm not interested in running VMware. Is it easy to upgrade oVirt or is it disruptive to do so? * Does anyone have real world experience running SPICE over a WAN with VPN? I hear great things about SPICE .. but haven't heard much about how it performs over a WAN .. which in this case is the Internet with an SSL-based VPN. I have plenty of Linux experience and am very comfortable with a command line and config files, but wouldn't mind a graphical interface for some of the virtualization components. I may expand to a second virtualization host at some point, but it is not in the initial plan. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks, Barry ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Barry, I am in to 3 months of experimenting with a lab machine that I use as my desktop. I have used Centos 7.5 host and am using kvm. I have an Intel I7-7700 with 64 gigs of memory, two M2 cards each with 250 gigs, and a RAID 6 array with an LSI card. I have two other centos 7.5 guest virtual machine and one windows10 virtual machine. After I figured out how everything works ..... I love it. The biggest problem I had was building a network bridge, (br0) I never got it to stay working until I turned off NetworkManager on the host. I am planning a production hypervisor in the next 3 to 6 months that will have a mail server, database server, and gateway server as guests. I also had some difficulty with gnome on the host when I started, but finally got that fixed. I experimented with the Cinnamon desktop and was very impressed as to they way it manages multiple guests and desktops. I ended up switching back to gnome because that was all I needed, and my fingers are used to it now. Hope this helps, Greg Ennis