From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: Graphical virtualisation management system Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 03:05:42 -0400 Message-ID: <20100625070542.GA24037@infradead.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Freddie Cash , KVM mailing list To: Javier Guerra Giraldez Return-path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:57316 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751474Ab0FYHFo (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jun 2010 03:05:44 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 02:01:52PM -0500, Javier Guerra Giraldez wrote: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Freddie Cash wrote: > > ??* virt-manager which requires X and seems to be more desktop-oriented; > > don't know about the others, but virt-manager runs only on the admin > station. on the VM hosts you run only libvirtd, which doesn't need X While it can connect to remote systems it seems totally unusable for that to me. For one thing working over higher latency links like DSL or even transatlantik links seems to be almost impossible. Second I still haven't figure out how to install and manage a system using the serial console with KVM, which certainly contributes to the complete lack of usability above.