[ale] End of XP

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Mon Mar 24 08:50:59 EDT 2014


Ovirt is a web based interface for controlling KVM setups. It's an open
source replacement for VMware's controller that only runs on winders. It's
designed to be enterprise ready but also works fine for single system
settings.
On Mar 24, 2014 8:29 AM, "JD" <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:

> Ovirt is Redhat specific?
>
> Never used Ovirt - kvm+virt-manager creates an easy to create and manage
> virtualization solution for Linux with ssh as the communications tunnel.
> Linux
> platform agnostic.
>
> At the next ALE-NW meeting, April 10th, we will install both these on a
> plain
> server in real-time. Bring your VT-x/AMD-v capable laptop and follow along.
> Best to setup a 5G new partition to do this, to ensure other hypervisor
> programs
> don't conflict - like VMware or VirtualBox.
>
> On 03/24/2014 07:31 AM, Sergio Chaves wrote:
> > http://www.ovirt.org/Home
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OVirt
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Paul Cartwright <pbcartwright at gmail.com
> > <mailto:pbcartwright at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 03/21/2014 04:24 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> >     > The virus can do pretty much whatever it's designed to do that wine
> >     > supports - filesystem traversal/read/write, networking, etc. So
> bad.
> >     > Very bad. If you can delete it, so can the virus.
> >     >
> >     > Seriously, buy 1 decent hardware capable virtualization server
> machine
> >     > (anything 64-bit that is newer than the last 5 years will work),
> toss
> >     > on Ovirt, make a VM with the ancient XP as guest running the
> >     > antiquated stuff. Provide no network for the VM and access it
> remotely
> >     > using spice client on Linux boxes.
> >
> >     what is ovirt??
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