[ale] KVM Management Utilities

[jdp at algoloma.com (JD)]

On 03/23/2012 11:31 PM, Ted W wrote:
> With all this talk recently about oVirt, RHEV and OpenStack I thought it 
> was a good time to re-visit my home virtual server. For the last 2 years 
> or so I had been running CentOS 5 and using the included Xen hypervisor. 
> To manage the VM's, on the rare occasion when direct intervention was 
> required, I used the "xm" command line utility. For the rebuild I 
> thought about trying my hand at OpenStack Compute and KVM on top of 
> CentOS 6... that lasted all of about 2 days and I decided that, while 
> OpenStack looks to have a very nice selection of utilities for managing 
> VMs, it's very much overkill for what I need. This leads me to my 
> question...
> 
> I'm running < 6 vm's at any one time out of my server. What would be an 
> equivalent tool to "xm" on KVM? When I'm at the console (rarely) I have 
> no problem pulling up virt-manager but 95% of the time I'll be working 
> with it via ssh and utterly refuse to enable XForwarding.

virsh?