Cockpit: just keeps gettin' better!!

FATeknollogee

With the current version of Cockpit 161 you are now able to create VMs on the Machines page.

I really like this application, it just keeps getting better!!

scottalanmiller

Cockpit really is quite impressive.

Obsolesce

@fateknollogee woah wtf... when did they implement that?!?! That's huge!

scottalanmiller

@tim_g said in Cockpit: just keeps gettin' better!!:

@fateknollogee woah wtf... when did they implement that?!?! That's huge!

Very huge.

FATeknollogee

@tim_g said in Cockpit: just keeps gettin' better!!:

@fateknollogee woah wtf... when did they implement that?!?! That's huge!

According to the blog post, looks like Feb. 7th.
I need to pay more attention (or subscribe) to the Cockpit blog. I swear, every update, they're always adding some new cool feature!
Check out the "improved LVM volume resizing". The shrink operation now includes auto-unmount.

Emad R

@fateknollogee
Can you specify Ethernet and disk drivers ?

FATeknollogee

@emad-r said in Cockpit: just keeps gettin' better!!:

@fateknollogee
Can you specify Ethernet and disk drivers ?

Doesn't look like you can.
The file path of the storage for the vm only uses the default location, I don't see a way to change this.

Emad R

@fateknollogee

I see, I wonder what it defaults too then. Anyway it is good progress, hopefully in the future this will get added.

FATeknollogee

@emad-r It defaults to /var/lib/libvirt/images/xxxx.qcow2

Emad R

@fateknollogee

Can i trouble you for to do this, and paste the contents:

virsh dumpxml GuestID > guest.xml

and provide us the xml ? Since it seem you have this installed.

FATeknollogee

@emad-r said in Cockpit: just keeps gettin' better!!:

virsh dumpxml GuestID > guest.xml

BRB

FATeknollogee

@emad-r said in Cockpit: just keeps gettin' better!!:

@fateknollogee

Can i trouble you for to do this, and paste the contents:

virsh dumpxml GuestID > guest.xml

and provide us the xml ? Since it seem you have this installed.

The vm's I have do not use the the /var/lib... default location.
Do you still want the xml?

Emad R

@fateknollogee

yes please

hobbit666

Not played with this for a long time. Might be time to get it installed again.

coliver

Is cockpit available for centos 7? Haven't really looked yet.

FATeknollogee

@emad-r said in Cockpit: just keeps gettin' better!!:

@fateknollogee

yes please

https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/36-Ikq~YW62Hr2dfd7Wgrg

FATeknollogee

@coliver said in Cockpit: just keeps gettin' better!!:

Is cockpit available for centos 7? Haven't really looked yet.

Yes it is
http://cockpit-project.org/running.html#centos

Emad R

@fateknollogee

  <target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/>

<controller type='scsi' index='0' model='virtio-scsi'>
  <target dev='macvtap1'/>
  <model type='virtio'/>
  <alias name='net0'/>

Nice, they are using the correct drivers from the start. All VirtIO paravirtual drivers, no emulated crap like e1000.

That means for windows OS you need to configure the VirtIO drivers prior, but this is much better for performance

Emad R

@coliver said in Cockpit: just keeps gettin' better!!:

Is cockpit available for centos 7? Haven't really looked yet.

Yup but not latest version so there are missing features,

yum -y update
yum install cockpit
yum install cockpit-machines # Optional for KVM Managing
https://server-ip:9090

You can install the beta version of it here:
http://pldelisle.no-ip.info:8090/display/HomeNetwork/Install+Cockpit+beta+in+CentOS+7

But even after using this link the max we can get is
157-1.el7.centos

Unless someone can search this repo for something better:

http://cbs.centos.org/repos/

FATeknollogee

@emad-r said in Cockpit: just keeps gettin' better!!:

@coliver said in Cockpit: just keeps gettin' better!!:

Is cockpit available for centos 7? Haven't really looked yet.

Yup but not latest version so there are missing features,

It's the same on Fedora.
If you want the "full-blown, everything" cockpit, you have to update & install cockpit.

You can also install the optional features: