Running VMs on HDA box
Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2016 8:29 pm
All,
Didn't find anything related to this in this forum and I'm not sure if this is possible or even suggested, but here it goes...
I'm currently have Amahi 8 happily running Plex and storing my music & pics on a box of hand-me-down parts (i3-2100, 4gb RAM, 3 HDs) but want to spin up some VMs to play around with other servers/OS and such. I was wondering if I could build a more powerful rig (i7, 32gb RAM, etc.) to run Amahi full time but also host some VMs. I know Amahi itself doesn't need much memory or compute power so I can't see any problem with it hosting a couple VMs at the same time. I really don't want to build another box just to host some VMs when I can have one machine to do everything. I have seen how numerous people are running their HDA in a VM but not the other direction (unless I missed it).
Is there any issues running VirtualBox (or maybe VMware) on my HDA? I was planning on having a separate HD not used by Amahi to hold all the VMs. Is there any considerations or planning needed to make this work?
Thanks
Didn't find anything related to this in this forum and I'm not sure if this is possible or even suggested, but here it goes...
I'm currently have Amahi 8 happily running Plex and storing my music & pics on a box of hand-me-down parts (i3-2100, 4gb RAM, 3 HDs) but want to spin up some VMs to play around with other servers/OS and such. I was wondering if I could build a more powerful rig (i7, 32gb RAM, etc.) to run Amahi full time but also host some VMs. I know Amahi itself doesn't need much memory or compute power so I can't see any problem with it hosting a couple VMs at the same time. I really don't want to build another box just to host some VMs when I can have one machine to do everything. I have seen how numerous people are running their HDA in a VM but not the other direction (unless I missed it).
Is there any issues running VirtualBox (or maybe VMware) on my HDA? I was planning on having a separate HD not used by Amahi to hold all the VMs. Is there any considerations or planning needed to make this work?
Thanks