[GTALUG] Setting up a VM host

[Alex Volkov]

I don't think this was mentioned before, but KVM/libvirt with shell
interface, besides gui inteface (virt-manager) there's a shell interface
virsh, which let you configure VM using shells scripts.

libvirt, is just a bunch of processes with, and I'm sorry, xml config files
located in /etc/libvirt. You can have any number of virtualization
technologies (LXC, KVM) and any number user backends -- (virt-manager,
virsh); managing all of that requires copying configuration and image files
around -- it doesn't get any simpler than that; unlike QEMU, you don't need
to pass long line of arguments to start up the machine and you get such
niceties as autostarting VMs on machine boot, not to mention that the whole
thing is enterpris-y and supported by redhat.

Actually virt-manager works pretty well -- libvirt likes ssh, and uses
client/server architecture, so when connecting to a remote host you don't
have to  tunnel it through ssh, just have it on a client machine and give
it a correct url.

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 10:37 AM, Giles Orr via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
wrote:

> If I wanted to set up a host for a bunch of headless VMs, what's the
> OS/Hypervisor to run these days?  I'm doing this out of curiosity and
> for testing purposes.  I don't exactly have appropriate hardware - an
> i5 with 16GB of memory - but it should be sufficient to run 5-10 VMs
> for my very limited purposes (private network, none of the VMs will be
> public-facing).  QEMU/KVM looks like the best choice for a FOSS
> advocate?  Other recommendations?  I could particularly use a good
> HOWTO or tutorial if anyone knows of one.  Thanks.
>
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