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On Tuesday 15 Aug 2017 16:14:21 Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 4:08 PM, R0b0t1 <r030t1@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 2:10 PM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> >> I do suggest using libvirt, and found that |
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> >> app-emulation/virt-manager gives you a lot of the benefits of |
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> >> something with a pretty GUI like Virtualbox, but it is 100% FOSS |
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> >> underneath and you can run it all from the command line too. It is |
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> >> just a front-end to libvirt. There are no issues with running these |
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> >> VMs as services also, and I believe that you can connect to their |
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> >> consoles at any time with virt-manager. |
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> > My only issue is that when I used libvirt I had to edit the produced |
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> > configurations by hand, and the settings wouldn't always take. Certain |
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> > hardware configurations were also hard to set up. |
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> This is why I use virt-manager. Granted, like most GUI tools there |
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> are probably some settings you can only get at in the config files, |
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> but it seems at least as capable as Virtualbox. You can always |
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> hand-edit configs but you probably won't bother. |
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> > However, should everything work it is very nice, and can do things |
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> > like start your VMs on boot and create tap devices on demand, etc. |
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> And that is what I like about it. Since virt-manager is just a GUI on |
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> top of libvirt you can set up VMs and edit them with the GUI, but |
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> still do all this kind of stuff from the command line when you want |
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> to, or from a service/etc. |
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> And if you use systemd I'm pretty sure there are units for all of that |
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> stuff, and it interacts with machinectl, but that is just an |
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> integration and you don't need systemd to use libvirt. Systemd itself |
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> is mostly just a front-end to libvirt when doing this stuff, and that |
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> is the power behind the concept - one API for a bunch of tools. |
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I've been using QEMU on my laptop which has KVM capability and it's |
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performance is impressive. QEMU without KVM is rather pedestrian, but the |
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same applies to VirtualBox. I have not yet compared QEMU Vs VirtualBox on the |
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same machine to know how they fare. I do not use libirt or virt-manager, but |
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I installed AQEMU for a GUI front end and it seems to work quite |
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satisfactorily when creating VMs, editing their settings, etc. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |