i would like to know if there is any setup which makes it easy to run Linux guested VMs with its root filesystem(s) (/etc, /bin, /usr, and so on) shared from the host system, not as a block device or loopback device. usually this will mean NFS. but i am hoping there are now things like emulation of devices sourced without NFS or small commonly usable images to bring up a guest that the uses NFS. i'm just looking around for possibly new stuff in the past 8 years since i did virtualization. otherwise i'll just spend the time to piece it together, myself.
my goal is to set up several VMs i can run in the background with no GUI except via VNC connections (when i want to be on, not required to bring a guest up). they will be started in CLIs under screen (which i use for just about all my background stuff). they will, in most cases, be there to test things under different distros and/or versions.
my goal is to set up several VMs i can run in the background with no GUI except via VNC connections (when i want to be on, not required to bring a guest up). they will be started in CLIs under screen (which i use for just about all my background stuff). they will, in most cases, be there to test things under different distros and/or versions.