Re: Graphical virtualisation management system

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 03:05:42AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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 <fjwcash@gmail.com> 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.

It is fair to say that virt-manager is not really targetted at high 
latency WAN scenearios. It is really aimed at small scale local LAN
deployments with 5-20 hosts maximum.  For a serious WAN deployment
you can't use the hub <-> spoke synchronous RPC architecture, instead
you need a asynchronous message bus - this is where something like
oVirt or RHEV is best.  So I'd agree that you shouldn't use virt-manager
across high latency DSL or transatlantic links, just use it in your local 
home or office LAN.

Regards,
Daniel
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