headless vm host

[Dave Cramer]

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Jamon Camisso
<jamon.camisso-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On 05/13/2010 09:27 AM, Jon VanAlten wrote:
>> What indications have you seen that KVM would have a problem with
>> this?  virt-manager has a cli that can be used for pretty much
>> anything you'd want to do in terms of setting up and running your
>> virtual machines.
>>
>> Example: at my workplace we have a machine sitting in the server room
>> which only runs virtual machines.  Each team member can log in over
>> ssh.  Whomever set up the machine made wrapper scripts (which
>> basically call the various virt-xxxx commands) to make the common
>> tasks of managing of our VM's even easier.  If we need a gui on a VM,
>> we use vnc.
>>
>> Note: I am only a user on this system, I would not be the "expert" to
>> ask for how to set something similar up.
>
> virt-manager is what you're after for a GUI. It works with remote KVM or
> XEN hosts. Take a look here:
> http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/screenshots.html
>
> Jamon

I did manage to get kvm working headless but when I went to install
centos 5.4 64bit it hung.

It appears that CentOS is using a fairly old version of kvm and even
newer versions seem to have problems with 64 bit guests.

I'm back to looking at virtual box.

Dave
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