[ale] KVM Management Utilities

[Crawford Rainwater]

Ted:

Take a look at "virsh" for CLI oriented parallel to "xm" on Xen.  "virsh" can go across hypervisors as well per memory, so you will see some of the man pages reference more than just KVM.

Ubuntu has some nice documentation on settings things up which should be easy to parallel for CentOS.

HTH.

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----- Ted W <ted at techmachine.net> wrote: -----
> 
> With all this talk recently about oVirt, RHEV and OpenStack I thought
> it
> was a good time to re-visit my home virtual server. For the last 2
> years
> or so I had been running CentOS 5 and using the included Xen
> hypervisor.
> To manage the VM's, on the rare occasion when direct intervention was
> required, I used the "xm" command line utility. For the rebuild I
> thought about trying my hand at OpenStack Compute and KVM on top of
> CentOS 6... that lasted all of about 2 days and I decided that, while
> OpenStack looks to have a very nice selection of utilities for
> managing
> VMs, it's very much overkill for what I need. This leads me to my
> question...
> 
> I'm running < 6 vm's at any one time out of my server. What would be
> an
> equivalent tool to "xm" on KVM? When I'm at the console (rarely) I
> have
> no problem pulling up virt-manager but 95% of the time I'll be working
> with it via ssh and utterly refuse to enable XForwarding.
> 
> Thanks,
> --
> Ted W.