Anyone Actually Using Virtual Linux Servers?

[Jarod Wilson]

On Sep 09, 2007, at 11:58, Kent Borg wrote:

> Kent Borg wrote:
>> Is anyone actually using virtual Linux servers?
>
> I didn't see any Qemu hands go up in the crowd.  Looks like I am
> pioneering again.

Not exactly... Xen makes use of some qemu bits, and kvm basically  
*is* qemu + patches to support full hardware virtualization. :)

> I do wish Qemu had better management tools.  So far I am rolling my  
> own;
> I have a script that runs out of rc.local and launches my current Qemu
> guests, each in their own "screen"s, so I can reconnect to the  
> console.
>  The screens are named for easier reattachment, and I have it writing
> the PID for each Qemu, but I am not doing anything with that yet.  I
> think the named screens will keep me from accidentally launching a
> second copy of a guest--screen will not run to hold it.

The Red Hat-produced Virtual Machine Manager (aka virt-manager)  
actually supports qemu guest management now.

http://virt-manager.org/


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