Hey guys
First up, i wasn't sure if this is the right section to post this, so admins move my post if you feel its necessary
Recently ive been studying at TAFE Australia ( similar to college in america ) doing a certificate IV in networking administration and we barely work with linux much unfortunately they base all their teaching around Windows Server 2008 R2 so I've become extremely used to using that, simplistic tools and Active Directory
By the way, all this work we do is done within a VMWare workstation 10 on a host computer, they are teaching us heavily about Virtualization, so my questions are to do with servers and Virtualization
So basically what im saying is i've become fairly used to a Graphical Interface and ive looked into Ubuntu server and it seem's all CLI Based
But here's what i want to do
I want to use my Laptop, an i7-3610QM Processor and 8GB of Memory as my server box, and in the server box ( my small laptop running VMWare workstation )
i want to run multiple Virtual Machines, the main one will be running Linux, the other 2-3 will run Windows 7 similar to a tiny business
I want to setup the Linux VM to host it all. to run DHCP, users, groups, and be able to control the windows VM's remotely, such as booting up and telling all 3 VM's at the same time to run a software installation like word or office
So my question comes down to, what software on Linux is suitable for this, and what distro would be best for me to use that can do all this with a Graphical interface/Desktop ( im not into the Command Line part of the course yet )
First up, i wasn't sure if this is the right section to post this, so admins move my post if you feel its necessary
Recently ive been studying at TAFE Australia ( similar to college in america ) doing a certificate IV in networking administration and we barely work with linux much unfortunately they base all their teaching around Windows Server 2008 R2 so I've become extremely used to using that, simplistic tools and Active Directory
By the way, all this work we do is done within a VMWare workstation 10 on a host computer, they are teaching us heavily about Virtualization, so my questions are to do with servers and Virtualization
So basically what im saying is i've become fairly used to a Graphical Interface and ive looked into Ubuntu server and it seem's all CLI Based
But here's what i want to do
I want to use my Laptop, an i7-3610QM Processor and 8GB of Memory as my server box, and in the server box ( my small laptop running VMWare workstation )
i want to run multiple Virtual Machines, the main one will be running Linux, the other 2-3 will run Windows 7 similar to a tiny business
I want to setup the Linux VM to host it all. to run DHCP, users, groups, and be able to control the windows VM's remotely, such as booting up and telling all 3 VM's at the same time to run a software installation like word or office
So my question comes down to, what software on Linux is suitable for this, and what distro would be best for me to use that can do all this with a Graphical interface/Desktop ( im not into the Command Line part of the course yet )