[ale] KVM Management Utilities

[Derek Atkins]

Brandon Colbert <colbert.brandon at gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 1:27 PM, JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:
>
>     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?

> virsh or virt-manger via ssh

Alas, these require ssh access to the VM Host, which means that users
need login accounts.  Do you know of something that provides web-based
VM management, and more importantly a web-based console?

-derek

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