Best distro for workstation virtualization host with KVM?
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The major drawback I am left with in Salix is that virt-manager is not in the repository. I understand there is an alternative in aqemu which I haven't tried yet but would have much preferred to stick with the industry standard VMM.
The major drawback I am left with in Salix is that virt-manager is not in the repository.
Yes it is:
Code:
root@hammer:~# sbopkg -s virt-manager
Searching for virt-manager
::::::::::::::
./system/virt-manager/README
::::::::::::::
virt-manager is a gtk interface that connects to libvirt.
This requires libvirt, GConf, gnome-python, urlgrabber, virtinst, gtk-vnc,
tunctl, rarian and optionally qemu and/or kvm.
If you have networking problems, make sure you have the tun module loaded.
To run virt-manager as a normal user, you need to configure libvirt
to have the correct permissions. Uncomment the unix_sock_group and
unix_sock_rw_perms in /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf and add the user to the
libvirt group
Out of all the distros I have tried, which is over ten different ones, only CentOS and Salix came anywhere near close to working.
Just wondering why Salix over CentOS.
I dont really understand what you're saying here, because the SolusVM master *must* be installed on an RPM based distro, preferably CentOS 5/6 or Scientific Linux - as per the SolusVM Requirements at:
Other docs only mention CentOS, but Scientific is indeed one of the three distros that they say are supported platforms.
hm... [this is just a rhetorical question, but] I wonder if it would work on Oracle Unbreakable Linux (which is just another RH clone that costs much less than RHEL)?
root@hammer:~# sbopkg -s virt-manager
Searching for virt-manager
::::::::::::::
./system/virt-manager/README
::::::::::::::
virt-manager is a gtk interface that connects to libvirt.
This requires libvirt, GConf, gnome-python, urlgrabber, virtinst, gtk-vnc,
tunctl, rarian and optionally qemu and/or kvm.
If you have networking problems, make sure you have the tun module loaded.
To run virt-manager as a normal user, you need to configure libvirt
to have the correct permissions. Uncomment the unix_sock_group and
unix_sock_rw_perms in /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf and add the user to the
libvirt group
I hope that helps
Kindest regards,
.
Many thanks, I will try that again then. For some reason when I tried previously I couldn't find virt-manager to install and when I asked on the Salix forum I was advised to install aqemu. Now I know that it is there I will try again.
I dont really understand what you're saying here, because the SolusVM master *must* be installed on an RPM based distro, preferably CentOS 5/6 or Scientific Linux - as per the SolusVM Requirements at:
Other docs only mention CentOS, but Scientific is indeed one of the three distros that they say are supported platforms.
hm... [this is just a rhetorical question, but] I wonder if it would work on Oracle Unbreakable Linux (which is just another RH clone that costs much less than RHEL)?
I hope that helps
Kindest regards,
.
Not understanding this at all, why has SolusVM got introduced into the equation? Is there perhaps some confusion with a different thread. I didn't understand your earlier comment about SolusVM/OpenVZ.
Not understanding this at all, why has SolusVM got introduced into the equation? Is there perhaps some confusion with a different thread. I didn't understand your earlier comment about SolusVM/OpenVZ.
"lithos" had said "Centos", and with a tongue in cheek response here, I replied, "Only if you're running SolusVM for OpenVZ :P"
To which you quoted me and responded:
Quote:
Originally Posted by Nick_C
Out of all the distros I have tried, which is over ten different ones, only CentOS and Salix came anywhere near close to working.
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