KVM Desktop Setup Ideas
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
KVM is also nice because you can continue using that machine as a regular desktop as well, if you need to do so. (Can't do that with VMware, Hyper-V or XenServer).
No one expects to use their Type 1 hypervisor as a desktop.
What? Tons do. Both KVM and Hyper-V are very popular for exactly this.
I did this with Hyper-V at my last job. It was great for spinning up a VM here and there for testing.
Yup, pretty much IT everywhere does it unless they have so much infrastructure that they do every little test on them instead of on desktops. It's nearly ubiquitous today.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
POssible, yes. Valid, no. He wants Linux as his main desktop, there is no valid use case where you'd want a Type 2 in that condition.
How can you be so certain that VirtualBox on his Linux desktop is not an option he may want to consider?
There's no reason to choose it over KVM/QEMU.
Literally not a single benefit over the other.
That's the bottom line. VirtualBox makes sense if you are talking a decade ago, or are using and sharing pre-existing VirtualBox workloads. But we know those things aren't the case here. It's a new install today. So VirtualBox is out, it's that simple.
Yeah, that's the reason I deployed a physical Fedora server running a desktop with Virtualbox... because a dev already had some super old virtualbox VMs going that nobody has time to redo. So it was VirtualBox by force. But like you said, that is not the case here, so it's not even worth mentioning VirtualBox or anything other than Hyper-V on Windows 10 or KVM with Linux desktops.
Desktop becase he needed TeamViewer access to a desktop on it. His requirement...
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
If YOU need to understand why you should never do this, just ask
This is the same mentality that SpiteWorks got fed up with. I understand the conditions and reasons for using alternatives. But people (and sorry for using you as an example @WrCombs) might literally not know the difference and need to understand why an alternative option is
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I use VMWare Workstation Pro for my type 2 on my work daily driver. I tried switching my workloads over to Hyper-V and it just wasn't working for me. I couldn't get used to it.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
If YOU need to understand why you should never do this, just ask
This is the same mentality that SpiteWorks got fed up with. I understand the conditions and reasons for using alternatives. But people (and sorry for using you as an example @WrCombs) might literally not know the difference and need to understand why an alternative option is
chosenrecommended.dont know enough to Chime in- so Im just eating popcorn and watching this all unfold.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
If YOU need to understand why you should never do this, just ask
This is the same mentality that SpiteWorks got fed up with. I understand the conditions and reasons for using alternatives. But people (and sorry for using you as an example @WrCombs) might literally not know the difference and need to understand why an alternative option is
chosenrecommended.that's fine, but it is not in the scope of this discussion. There is no end to "alternatives" we could mention. No one said that it wasn't possible, we just didn't bring up irrelevant plausible options.
Also plausible... not doing this at all, buying a server instead, using containers, buying one machine for each VM... on and on with silly "options" that you didn't mention for the same reasons we didn't mention Type 2.
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You say "It's so obvious that it is never a consideration".
Yet all the time we are dealing with situations where if people had but a bit of explanation why an alternative would've been much better, would many of these problems no ever have existed.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
You say "It's so obvious that it is never a consideration".
Yet all the time we are dealing with situations where if people had but a bit of explanation why an alternative would've been much better, would many of these problems no ever have existed.
We are, but not in cases where it would never come up. There is no need for explanations for things outside of scope. In fact, it would seem crazy.
No one asked for comparisons or is in a situation to consider something else. There is no reason to assume that they were considering doing something silly that they never mentioned.
If you feel that way, then why are you not mentioning hundreds of terrible things that they "might" have considered, but didn't mention?
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
If YOU need to understand why you should never do this, just ask
This is the same mentality that SpiteWorks got fed up with. I understand the conditions and reasons for using alternatives. But people (and sorry for using you as an example @WrCombs) might literally not know the difference and need to understand why an alternative option is
chosenrecommended.that's fine, but it is not in the scope of this discussion. There is no end to "alternatives" we could mention. No one said that it wasn't possible, we just didn't bring up irrelevant plausible options.
Also plausible... not doing this at all, buying a server instead, using containers, buying one machine for each VM... on and on with silly "options" that you didn't mention for the same reasons we didn't mention Type 2.
The conversation started with "I need to run virtual machines on this old desktop that I might upgrade to 32GB of ram".
There are a lot of options here. Windows 7 and vbox is one of them, it's obviously a weird one.
But you should start the conversation with practical starting points. Benefits of Type 1 over Type 2 and why you may choose Type 2.
Then you'd proceed from there.
Yes these are all things that are readily known to the educated community, but for someone looking to learn saying "Do as I say" doesn't teach them anything but to repeat a process. It provides no understanding of the logic to using the process.
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@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
What combo is best to "get started" with KVM?
It's just for a standalone machine to host 5-6 VM's.
here is the original question.
There was NO discussion of what hypervisors to use, NO discussion of which kinds. Nothing.
Zero need to start talking about all kinds of things that he "isn't" doing.
This all started not because you felt Type 2 was an option, but because you @DustinB3403 claimed that the very thing all of us do, never happens.
Now you are talking about alternatives, totally different than what you originally said.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
If YOU need to understand why you should never do this, just ask
This is the same mentality that SpiteWorks got fed up with. I understand the conditions and reasons for using alternatives. But people (and sorry for using you as an example @WrCombs) might literally not know the difference and need to understand why an alternative option is
chosenrecommended.that's fine, but it is not in the scope of this discussion. There is no end to "alternatives" we could mention. No one said that it wasn't possible, we just didn't bring up irrelevant plausible options.
Also plausible... not doing this at all, buying a server instead, using containers, buying one machine for each VM... on and on with silly "options" that you didn't mention for the same reasons we didn't mention Type 2.
The conversation started with "I need to run virtual machines on this old desktop that I might upgrade to 32GB of ram".
No, it didn't, it started with him asking about KVM configuration.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
There are a lot of options here. Windows 7 and vbox is one of them, it's obviously a weird one.
Endless options if you consider not staying in scope and not staying viable. Literally endless.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
But you should start the conversation with practical starting points. Benefits of Type 1 over Type 2 and why you may choose Type 2.
No, because he STARTED way past that point. You don't need to back track just to show that we understood why he made the good decision that he did.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
There are a lot of options here. Windows 7 and vbox is one of them, it's obviously a weird one.
Endless options if you consider not staying in scope and not staying viable. Literally endless.
In scope is strictly Linux plus KVM. Anythign else is out of scope.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Yes these are all things that are readily known to the educated community, but for someone looking to learn saying "Do as I say" doesn't teach them anything but to repeat a process. It provides no understanding of the logic to using the process.
That's great. So if you want to teach others, don't interject false information like "no one would do this". Instead ask "what were the factors that led you to this really common and obviously, but not the only feasible option?" So that we can learn from his decision process.
Claiming his decision was false, then claiming it is true but not the only possible option, helps no one.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
This all started not because you felt Type 2 was an option, but because you @DustinB3403 claimed that the very thing all of us do, never happens.
This started because of the way the question is posed and the resulting answers provided, the lack of explanation to the answers and the continuation of "Just use Cockpit".
Which results in a multitude of other questions like: Why would he be using cockpit to manage his daily driver Type 1 KVM hypervisor to manage the VMs on it when he could use any of the graphical tools that are built in. Like Boxes.
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@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
There are a lot of options here. Windows 7 and vbox is one of them, it's obviously a weird one.
Endless options if you consider not staying in scope and not staying viable. Literally endless.
In scope is strictly Linux plus KVM. Anythign else is out of scope.
Right, that was the starting point. And no reason to back up, as there was no hint of anything not being chosen in the best possible way.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
This all started not because you felt Type 2 was an option, but because you @DustinB3403 claimed that the very thing all of us do, never happens.
This started because of the way the question is posed and the resulting answers provided, the lack of explanation to the answers and the continuation of "Just use Cockpit".
No, this started with him asking a simple, logical question that implied he had done everything right so far. Then you claiming that that "right" thing could never happen. That alone is the cause of the discussion we are having.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
There are a lot of options here. Windows 7 and vbox is one of them, it's obviously a weird one.
Endless options if you consider not staying in scope and not staying viable. Literally endless.
In scope is strictly Linux plus KVM. Anythign else is out of scope.
Right, that was the starting point. And no reason to back up, as there was no hint of anything not being chosen in the best possible way.
And by combo, well that was answered... fedora, kvm, cockpit... remote viewer, etc... could have stopped there
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Which results in a multitude of other questions like: Why would he be using cockpit to manage his daily driver Type 1 KVM hypervisor to manage the VMs on it when he could use any of the graphical tools that are built in. Like Boxes.
That's a totally different conversation. Now you are talking about the responses we gave to his question. Rather than the discussion at hand which is why you claimed his decision wasn't valid.
