On 12/03/2013 05:32 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote: >> On 12/02/2013 06:32 AM, Kenneth Porter wrote: >>> The subject says it all. I got CentOS 6.4 installed and then converted it >>> to boot into the Xen kernel, using the C6.4 system as its dom0. But now I'm >>> uncertain how to put a C6.4 domU on the result. Which tools are recommended? >> why not just use virt-install from the cli ? >> >> - KB > Morning, Karanbir, long time since I've commented on a thread with you. > > Because virt-install involves having some fairly serious knowledge of > the options available. For a noob, or someone who doesn't write their > own resource analysis and wrapper scripts easily, It's fairly fragile > to use. It also doesn't automatically report replicatoin of IP > addresses for setup configurations, nor is it capable of tracking > resource allocations and overlaps among multiple KVM servers that are > not in a cluster. > > virt-manager is very helpful to noobs setting up their first > resources, but I frankly admit that for small virtualization > environments. But it's quite burdened by trying to support too many > virtualization technologies, and by its own confusion of who owns the > configuration files and where they should reside. But I also admit > that for small, lightweight virtualization setups, I find KVM itself > quite awkeward and simply use VirtualBox. The KVM bridging > requirements, in particular, are impossible to set up without > hand-editing the network configuration files or reading, and writing, > guidelines such as my old ones for pair bonding and bridging and KVM > and VLANs at https://wikis.uit.tufts.edu/confluence/display/TUSKpub/Configure+Pair+Bonding,+VLANs,+and+Bridges+for+KVM+Hypervisor. > Heaven help me, but I agree with you :) Libvirt and virt-manager is much easier to use than the command line tools ... although it also limits what you can accomplish as it only does a fraction of the possible configurations. Libvirt on xen4centos: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Xen/Xen4QuickStart/Xen4Libvirt -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20131203/7ac03afc/attachment-0002.sig>