Run virt-manager on Windows 10
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@travisdh1 said in Run virt-manager on Windows 10:
@Obsolesce said in Run virt-manager on Windows 10:
Go Windows!
Just had to include all the UNIX ecosystem apps to make it good! lol.
They always have. Or almost always. Goes way back. Remember that Microsoft was the world's largest UNIX vendor before they went to Windows. In the old days, before Linux was big, Microsoft's SFU (Subsystem for UNIX) was a layer that you added that was just Xenix rebuilt on Windows. SFU was just renamed, but POSIX compatibility has been a Windows requirement for decades now, and has always worked very well.
Although running just Ubuntu updates on Windows 10 showcases very quickly just how slow the system is compared to Ubuntu on Linux.
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@scottalanmiller said in Run virt-manager on Windows 10:
@travisdh1 said in Run virt-manager on Windows 10:
@scottalanmiller I had to do an
apt-get updatebefore apt-get would find and install virt-manager.
That's true, but you shouldn't be skipping patching regardless. So in theory it should get picked up as a matter of course.
Except that this was a brand new instance of WSL.
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@JaredBusch said in Run virt-manager on Windows 10:
@scottalanmiller said in Run virt-manager on Windows 10:
@travisdh1 said in Run virt-manager on Windows 10:
@scottalanmiller I had to do an
apt-get updatebefore apt-get would find and install virt-manager.
That's true, but you shouldn't be skipping patching regardless. So in theory it should get picked up as a matter of course.
Except that this was a brand new instance of WSL.
Yep. While
apt-get updateis something those of use who have been using Debian/Ubuntu know to do automatically, it's a missing step that could trip someone up. -
Having a few issues getting this running.
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So i've installed Xming.
Set the Display and Ran the program. -
Gone to the Windows Store and installed Ubuntu 18.04
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Ran Ubuntu and done and
ap-get update
Thenapt-get install virt-manager -
ran
virt-manager &
This is where i get the first problem.
I get the following message:-
Do i need to install or run anything else on the Windows Ubuntu instance?
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@hobbit666 said in Run virt-manager on Windows 10:
Having a few issues getting this running.
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So i've installed Xming.
Set the Display and Ran the program. -
Gone to the Windows Store and installed Ubuntu 18.04
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Ran Ubuntu and done and
ap-get update
Thenapt-get install virt-manager -
ran
virt-manager &
This is where i get the first problem.
I get the following message:-
Do i need to install or run anything else on the Windows Ubuntu instance?
Try restarting the machine or at least virt-manager
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@DustinB3403 I've rebooted my machine still the same.
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@hobbit666 does your hardware support virtualization?
kvm ok -
@DustinB3403 Yeah i've installed Fedora 29 with Headless Virtualisation.
Installed Cockpit-Machines and that's letting me create VM's
Was just trying Virt-Manger as i'm not sure how to create a VM with Cockpit and select a diffident storage location for the VM, as my Boot drive is only 16GB. -
@hobbit666 said in Run virt-manager on Windows 10:
@DustinB3403 Yeah i've installed Fedora 29 with Headless Virtualisation.
Installed Cockpit-Machines and that's letting me create VM's
Was just trying Virt-Manger as i'm not sure how to create a VM with Cockpit and select a diffident storage location for the VM, as my Boot drive is only 16GB.Ah, with virt-manager you need to add the location. It is a bit weird, but makes sense the first time you do it.
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Found may be a easier way of getting it on Windows 10.
Install virt-manager xorg-x11-fonts-* xorg-x11-utils xorg-x11-xauth
Then install MobaXterm
https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/download.html
I've used the Home Edition
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@hobbit666 Isn't that the same process, just replacing Xming with MobaXterm? All the rest seems to be the same effort?
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@scottalanmiller might be, but this way worked for me.
Also no need to install Ubuntu on the windows machine. Just Mobaxterm -
@scottalanmiller said in Run virt-manager on Windows 10:
solutino.
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@hobbit666 said in Run virt-manager on Windows 10:
@scottalanmiller might be, but this way worked for me.
Also no need to install Ubuntu on the windows machine. Just MobaxtermOh, I must be missing something. How did you install virt-manager without Ubuntu? There is no download or installer for it without that, that I know of. That's what I was looking for.
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@hobbit666 said in Run virt-manager on Windows 10:
Found may be a easier way of getting it on Windows 10.
Install virt-manager xorg-x11-fonts-* xorg-x11-utils xorg-x11-xauthThese are the steps that don't exist on Windows. The whole thread was about getting these installed, and no one could do it. Installing Ubuntu was to make them installable. If there was a way to install them without it, that would be even better. But the way you have it written is like "you just do it", but virt-manager and all those xorg libraries are Linux executables, not Windows ones. So not sure what to do.
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They are but you just install Mobaxterm.
SSH onto the KVM server run those commands and then run virt-managerI just found that process easier than installing the Ubuntu solution through Windows store. Updating it, then having the libvirtd error
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@hobbit666 said in Run virt-manager on Windows 10:
They are but you just install Mobaxterm.
SSH onto the KVM server run those commands and then run virt-managerThat's NOT running virt-manager on Windows. That totally skips the solution and just goes right to what we are trying to fix. We already have it on Linux and already have remote access to Linux. It's getting it on Windows that we are trying to accomplish.
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@hobbit666 said in Run virt-manager on Windows 10:
I just found that process easier than installing the Ubuntu solution through Windows store. Updating it, then having the libvirtd error
Yeah, but then we have to run an extra server just to handle this one application. Hardly easier. And way slower since you have extra network hops.
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@scottalanmiller no you install them on kvm host.
All its doing is X11 forwarding like what your doing with Ubuntu and xmingThere's no need for a VM just to run virtmanager
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@hobbit666 said in Run virt-manager on Windows 10:
@scottalanmiller no you install them on kvm host.
So basically not solving the problem? That's obviously the easiest thing to do, but that's just identifying a problem and then ignoring it.
The whole purpose is to have central access from the desktop to lots of machines in a single interface. Launching tons of X windows to look at lots of different machines would be a mess and specifically what we have already that we are trying to fix. That's the starting point that doesn't work, hence the point of this thread.
