[ale] KVM Management Utilities

[Jim Kinney]

cool! Webmin and virtualmin have always impressed me. I haven't watched
their stuff in a while. Cloudmin looks very impressive. The pro version is
dirt cheap compared to other management tools for a fee.

Many thanks for the heads up!

On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Crawford Rainwater <
crawford.rainwater at linux-etc.com> wrote:

> Comments below.
>
> ----- Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote: -----
> >
> > 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
> >
>
> Derek:
>
> Cloudmin (GPL or Pro versions) is an option potentially which can run on
> top (as an overlay) of KVM, Xen, Solaris Zones, and connect to Amazon AWS.
>
> The current only down side (minor too) is management of existing KVM
> virtual machines made via virsh versus made under Cloumin.  The original
> virsh ones will not be able to run with all of the Cloudmin options and
> capabilities (e.g., resize VM HDD sizes, alter resources on the fly).
>  However for a central and web UI management point, it is that.  It can
> access the virtual machines via SSH, VNC, and/or Webmin/Virtualmin (if
> installed) as well.
>
> HTH and FWIW.
>
> --- Crawford
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