[ale] Fw: VirtualBox

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> writes:

> On 12/15/2010 11:55 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Yeah, I know about that product; I currently use Vmware-Server.
>> Unfortunately it's been EOL'ed by vmware and there isn't a replacement,
>> so basically I'm looking for something to migrate to.  And no, moving to
>> ESXi isn't an option.
>> 
>> This is why I'm seriously considering KVM, as it wont "go away" anytime
>> soon..  But I don't know if it has the level of remote management that I
>> need.
>
> Are virsh for command-line access and virt-manager for GUI access not
> good enough? Frankly I think they're much better than vmware server's
> flakey web interface and shoddy scripting support. See parts 30 and 31 of

No, they are not good enough.  For one thing, they require local access,
either via shell or desktop.  I need remotely-accessible administration
for a VM server.  I have VMs that need to be 'run' (and also accessed)
by remote users, and I don't want to provide shell access to them.

> http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Virtualization/index.html

I've done more research and it looks like I *may* be able to use oVirt
on a single system.  I'm going to install it on one machine I have and
see if I can get it to work similarly to vmware-server.  Or at least see
if I can get it to do the things I needed vmware-server to do, even if
it's not 100% feature-compatible with vmware-server.  I didn't actually
use all of vmware-servers's features. ;)

-derek

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