Anyone Actually Using Virtual Linux Servers?

[Kent Borg]

Kent Borg wrote:
>> The Red Hat-produced Virtual Machine Manager (aka virt-manager) actually
>> supports qemu guest management now.
> 
> That looks cool.  I don't see it as part of Ubuntu (yet), but I'll have
> to take a look anyway.

Dang, virt-manager looks like it is GUI-only.  This is a server I am
trying to keep lean.  My logic for why I can do this at all hinges
largely on saying that I am not running X, and imagine how much
horsepower *that* frees up!  I suppose I could "ssh -X" and run it that
way, but still, there are a whole lot of packages necessary to do that.
 I want to keep the host simpler than that.  (Every package is a
potential security hole, and the host is the most sensitive.)

Xen (it was fun while it lasted) has a pretty nice utility "xm".  It is
a text utility, it would know what machines I had, start and stop them
on request, tell me their state, not start the same machine twice, let
me attach to the "serial" console, suspend and resume them, etc.  It
might have been part of the guests being suspended automatically on host
shutdown (provided I gave a big enough "-T"-value).

There is nothing like this for the various Qemu's?  Or, will I be
accreting my version as someone else is building the standard one?

Shocking, I know, I want text-based tools for managing a server!


-kb, the Kent who still feels like a pioneer.

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