Re: Graphical virtualisation management system

[Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>]

On 06/25/10 09:05, 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.

Works but is quite slow indeed.  Also virt-manager remote host support 
works ok for a small number of hosts, but if you want to manage dozens 
of them it becomes unusable.

> 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.

Serial console support doesn't work for remote connections.  Dunno 
whenever that is a restriction of virt-manager or the underlying libvirt.

cheers,
   Gerd