Remote management client for KVM/QEMU
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I am running KVM on Ubuntu 16.04 with no GUI, can someone suggest me a method to remotely (preferably, browser based) create and manage virtual machines on KVM please?
I am planning to host only 2-4 VMs and do not want to spend money on any commercial solution. Since I am new to KVM, I couldn't identify a product from http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Management_Tools which meets my requirement best.
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@sn said in Remote management client for KVM/QEMU:
I am running KVM on Ubuntu 16.04 with no GUI, can someone suggest me a method to remotely (preferably, browser based) create and manage virtual machines on KVM please?
I am planning to host only 2-4 VMs and do not want to spend money on any commercial solution. Since I am new to KVM, I couldn't identify a product from http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Management_Tools which meets my requirement best.
If I'm not using cli, I'm using Virt-Manager. There aren't many options, but I think @dafyre is using webvirtmgr.
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I use virt manager as well
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Yeah, I am currently using Webvirtmgr (https://github.com/retspen/webvirtmgr) ... I'm also using the Virt-Manager when I'm at a Linux box though.
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Thanks mates!
I am going to try Webvirtmgr! -
@dafyre said in Remote management client for KVM/QEMU:
Yeah, I am currently using Webvirtmgr (https://github.com/retspen/webvirtmgr) ... I'm also using the Virt-Manager when I'm at a Linux box though.
So haven't looked at it in forever. Can you add devices through it? Hardware and things like qemu-ga?
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@stacksofplates said in Remote management client for KVM/QEMU:
@dafyre said in Remote management client for KVM/QEMU:
Yeah, I am currently using Webvirtmgr (https://github.com/retspen/webvirtmgr) ... I'm also using the Virt-Manager when I'm at a Linux box though.
So haven't looked at it in forever. Can you add devices through it? Hardware and things like qemu-ga?
That part I'm not too sure about. I mean you can manage network cards and hard drives and stuff, but I haven't had to do much more than that with it yet. I never even realized qemu / KVM had guest additions, lol.
My systems all seem to run well out of the box.
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@sn said in Remote management client for KVM/QEMU:
Thanks mates!
I am going to try Webvirtmgr!I have managed to setup Webvirtmgr but I should say it was a hard one compared to installing ESXi and connecting it using vSphere client. Is this the way KVM works?
I thought it should be something similar to VMWare in terms of "ease of use"!
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@sn said in Remote management client for KVM/QEMU:
@sn said in Remote management client for KVM/QEMU:
Thanks mates!
I am going to try Webvirtmgr!I have managed to setup Webvirtmgr but I should say it was a hard one compared to installing ESXi and connecting it using vSphere client. Is this the way KVM works?
I thought it should be something similar to VMWare in terms of "ease of use"!
The GUI App Virt-Manager is more akin to the vSphere client. I found I had little trouble getting Webvirtmgr set up though. Were you able to get it going?
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@sn said in Remote management client for KVM/QEMU:
@sn said in Remote management client for KVM/QEMU:
Thanks mates!
I am going to try Webvirtmgr!I have managed to setup Webvirtmgr but I should say it was a hard one compared to installing ESXi and connecting it using vSphere client. Is this the way KVM works?
I thought it should be something similar to VMWare in terms of "ease of use"!
Did you setup NGINX or did you just use the SSH tunnel? The tunnel is much easier to configure.
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@stacksofplates said in Remote management client for KVM/QEMU:
@sn said in Remote management client for KVM/QEMU:
@sn said in Remote management client for KVM/QEMU:
Thanks mates!
I am going to try Webvirtmgr!I have managed to setup Webvirtmgr but I should say it was a hard one compared to installing ESXi and connecting it using vSphere client. Is this the way KVM works?
I thought it should be something similar to VMWare in terms of "ease of use"!
Did you setup NGINX or did you just use the SSH tunnel? The tunnel is much easier to configure.
SSH Tunnerl is probably easier... But I already had ZeroTier on the host so I'm just connecting over that.
