From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gerd Hoffmann Subject: Re: Graphical virtualisation management system Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:07:26 +0200 Message-ID: <4C2471CE.8050403@redhat.com> References: <20100625070542.GA24037@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Javier Guerra Giraldez , Freddie Cash , KVM mailing list To: Christoph Hellwig Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:25769 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751589Ab0FYJHf (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jun 2010 05:07:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100625070542.GA24037@infradead.org> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 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