[colug-432] KVM management

[Brian Wilson]

I use Proxmox at my work it uses KVM and  also uses OpenVZ. It has a web
interface for controlling the vm's.

Brian Wilson

On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Neal Dias <roman at ensecure.org> wrote:

> May want to look into oVirt.
>
> Actively developed; is, or was, an active upstream project for Red
> Hat's Enterprise Virtualization, which means they have a vested
> interest in seeing the project continue and mature.
>
> Regarding VNC, SPICE is an alternative you may want to explore.
>
> http://spice-space.org
>
> Disclaimer; I don't run these myself, nor really looked at them after
> I left RHT.
>
> -nd
>
> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Greg Sidelinger <gate at ilive4code.net>
> wrote:
> > I'm finally replacing my home server which is an old P4 and this means
> > I get to rethink how I have things setup.  On my laptop I spin up
> > virtual machines to play with new things all the time.  I would like
> > to move a lot of these guests to the new home server now that it
> > supports virtual cpu extensions but have not decided how to configure
> > things.  I was thinking about using vmware's "free" esx stuff but
> > since it's management interface is a window's only program that is
> > out.  So I started playing with KVM over the weekend and I can't say
> > I'm in love but I bet most of it's a learning curve as I've been using
> > VMWare products for over 10 years on the desktop and server.
> >
> > Does anyone have any recommendations for a KVM management suit that
> > allows me to still use the libvirt command line tools if needed.  I'm
> > looking for something that is either web centric or provides native
> > clients for  Linux and OSX.  I've looked at
> > http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Management_Tools but would like a few
> > suggestions of which ones are "good".  So far I like cloudstack but
> > have yet to try and set it up.
> >
> > And is VNC really the preferred way to view a GUI from a KVM guest?
> > I've never really cared for VNC because it always seems "slow" to me
> > so I was hoping to see something that worked a bit better in the KVM
> > world to access my guests which require a GUI.
> >
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