From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Subject: Re: Graphical virtualisation management system Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:21:04 +0100 Message-ID: <20100625092103.GD6225@redhat.com> References: <20100625070542.GA24037@infradead.org> Reply-To: "Daniel P. Berrange" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Javier Guerra Giraldez , Freddie Cash , KVM mailing list To: Christoph Hellwig Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:38933 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754219Ab0FYJVL (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jun 2010 05:21:11 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100625070542.GA24037@infradead.org> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 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 -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://deltacloud.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|