[PLUG] Problems with Virtual Box

Dan Young danielmyoung at gmail.com
Thu Apr 21 23:31:24 UTC 2011


On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Tim <tim-pdxlug at sentinelchicken.org> wrote:
>> > How about a virtual serial console for choosing a kernel to boot and
>> > watching the boot messages?
>>
>>    virsh start YourVM --console
>
>
> It's been a while since I used it, but kvm (qemu) also has a VNC
> console setting which could accomplish this same thing.  This is
> similar to VMWare's RemoteDisplay.vnc.* configuration to give you
> simple remote access to the VM console.

These are all functions of the libvirt stack which while it works w/
several VM backends, but is commonly used w/ KVM:
http://libvirt.org/

virt-manager (GUI for managing VMs, VNC display of console)
virsh (interactive shell and scriptable mgmt tool)

So KVM doesn't really have a GUI, but libvirt does. I can't say enough
good things about libvirt.

-- 
Dan Young



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