Re: Xen like VirtualBox

[Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@citrix.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xen-devel [mailto:xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org] On Behalf Of
> Jason Long
> Sent: 15 November 2016 06:01
> To: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>; Xen-devel@lists.xen.org
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Xen like VirtualBox
> 
> I see you are a Citrix Employee and you and your coworkers must help Xen. I
> guess start a dedicated GUI project for Xen help Xen users like me a lot. It is
> mandatory and if you see that some users use VirtualBox is it because of its
> nice GUI and not performance.
> 

Have you tried XenServer? That is Citrix's product and has a well-liked GUI. Why would we want another one?

  Paul

> 
> 
> On Monday, November 14, 2016 10:10 PM, Dario Faggioli
> <dario.faggioli@citrix.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-11-14 at 14:05 +0000, Jason Long wrote:
> > Thank you but the problem is that "virt-manager" is for Redhat and
> > Redhat don't like Xen anymore because of KVM.
> >
> That's not really accurate. Virt-manager is --at least last time I've
> tried, which is not too long ago-- a GUI front-end for libvirt.
> 
> It is may be true that a lot of its contributors works for or are
> related to RedHat, and it is probably still true that it does its best
> with KVM... But it actually works with Xen already (it, at least up to
> a certain extent, should work with whatever uses libvirt).
> 
> In fact, if you go to https://virt-manager.org/ , this is what you
> find:
> "The virt-manager application is a desktop user interface for managing
> virtual machines through libvirt. It primarily targets KVM VMs, but
> also manages Xen and LXC (linux containers)."
> 
> It could be made a lot better, when used on Xen, but that will only
> happen with some effort, and helping us assessing what does work and
> what does not, would be a very valuable contribution.
> 
> >  Another problem is that a program like VirtualBox has a nice GUI but
> > virt-manager not.
> >
> Mmm.. so, you're saying that you like VirtualBox's GUI but you don't
> like virt-manager's one, right? In which case, oh, well...
> 
> 
> Dario
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