VMs on LAN : questions about speed and bandwidth

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lolveley
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VMs on LAN : questions about speed and bandwidth

Post by lolveley »

hello

I would like to get some advices on VM servers.
Indeed, instead of creating again and again the same VM in virtualbox, I am wondering if having a virtual machines server would not be better, but I have no experience on it.

For now, I have some computers (a laptop with windows 10, a mini-pc with debian 9) and openmediavault (a nas oriented debian distribution). In fact, I got the idea of a VM server thanks to the nas distrib : there is a virtualbox plugin, yet is is no more maintained and I was not able to run a VM from it.

I tried to enable display remote in virtualbox running on windows, and using remmina on the desktop on debian I was able to get the VM screen(a fedora installation). But it was very slow, and not adapted to a daily use. The desktop is connected to the LAN by ethernet but the laptop by wifi. I assume connecting it via ethernet should speed up the connection.

So I ask you some questions :
- should I use an ethernet wire for both computers? If so, will a enough good connection possible? Is it even thinkable to try to connect a VM server to the LAN and to get VMs available for an other computer in the network?
- What is the hardware/software to use for such a server? Is a real NAS required?
- do I need 1Gb/s broadband over power line wire of do 300Mb/S ones suffice?

thank you.
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Re: VMs on LAN : questions about speed and bandwidth

Post by socratis »

You could always store and register your VMs on the server. See the "Moving a VM" FAQ for the details. Start with one VM, test the network speed if it's to your satisfaction/expectations.
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