I want to set up a private Cloud for testing purposes, the problem is, I don’t have the newest Hardware for this plan. Especially the most of my machines don’t have hardware virtualization support.
I tried the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud, but the instances stuck in the “pending” state. The hypervisor used kvm and then it crashed. And heard that Xen isn’t as good implemented in the UEC to use it.
My question now is, which would be the best cloud stack for me? A stack which can handle not hardware virtualized machines better.
I only wan’t to use it for testing, EC2 is to expensive for me at this time for my current development state.
Eucalyptus supports the hypervisor preferred by the specific distro. UEC prefer KVM, so you will need hardware virtualizaion, but CentOS (for example) prefers XEN so you could install Eucalyptus and use it without the need of hardware supported virtualisation. Last time I check Debian supported both kvm and xen, but it may requires you some configuration.