[ale] Fw: VirtualBox

[Derek Atkins]

Joseph Scalia <jscalia at redhat.com> writes:

> Jumping in a bit late in the thread... Was there a reason you did not
> want to use Virt-Manager?

Last I checked, virt-manager requires running on the local machine.  I
have remote users and want to give access to the console of particular
VMs remotely.  I don't want to allow them (let alone require them) to
ssh into my VM host box.

> Virt-manager uses remote libvirt calls and supports multiple nodes.
> Ovirt certainly looks sexier, but there hasn't been a commit since
> July.  That doesn't exactly give me a warm fuzzy feeling for it's
> future.

I'm not sure what you mean by "remote libvirt calls" in this context.  I
was under the impression that virt-manager was a Gtk App that ran locally,
similar to vmware workstation (or player).  Is my impression incorrect?

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-derek

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Derek Atkins" <warlord at MIT.EDU>
> To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
> Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 9:52:22 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [ale] Fw: VirtualBox
>
> Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> writes:
>
>> On 12/15/2010 11:55 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>>> Yeah, I know about that product; I currently use Vmware-Server.
>>> Unfortunately it's been EOL'ed by vmware and there isn't a replacement,
>>> so basically I'm looking for something to migrate to.  And no, moving to
>>> ESXi isn't an option.
>>> 
>>> This is why I'm seriously considering KVM, as it wont "go away" anytime
>>> soon..  But I don't know if it has the level of remote management that I
>>> need.
>>
>> Are virsh for command-line access and virt-manager for GUI access not
>> good enough? Frankly I think they're much better than vmware server's
>> flakey web interface and shoddy scripting support. See parts 30 and 31 of
>
> No, they are not good enough.  For one thing, they require local access,
> either via shell or desktop.  I need remotely-accessible administration
> for a VM server.  I have VMs that need to be 'run' (and also accessed)
> by remote users, and I don't want to provide shell access to them.
>
>> http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Virtualization/index.html
>
> I've done more research and it looks like I *may* be able to use oVirt
> on a single system.  I'm going to install it on one machine I have and
> see if I can get it to work similarly to vmware-server.  Or at least see
> if I can get it to do the things I needed vmware-server to do, even if
> it's not 100% feature-compatible with vmware-server.  I didn't actually
> use all of vmware-servers's features. ;)
>
> -derek

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