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Is it a good idea to virtualise your Server 2008 AD with Kvm?

I am in the process of setting up a Server 2008 R2 AD \ DC and someone suggested i use a linux based OS with KVM to virtualise the entire system. In my humble opinion, why would i want to virtualise payware with opensource software. Is this even a good idea? I also want to deploy an Exchange server in the newly created domain. Any advice would be appreciated.

The reason i want to run a virtualised os FROM my Server 2008 r2 machin e, is i want to run a CentOs firewall.
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Depends on how much users you got, and what roles are running on your win server.
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60 users, AD, DHCP,DNS, Exchange 2010.
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i don't see the reason to virtualise a software with another software, ¿nce you can do with the same.
It is more homogenized enviroment.

Now the CentOS Firewall you can run it from a new virtual machine with linux OS.
You can create as many as you want virtual machines, carefull RAM, CPU, Storage.