On 04/28/2011 06:46 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > On 4/28/11, Gleb Natapov <gleb at redhat.com> wrote: >> So why don't you use virt-manager? > > The original intention was to run the host without any graphical > desktop or anything not necessary to host the guests. That was based > on reading and such which recommends not having anything beyond the > necessary to minimize potential security problems and maximize > resources available. > > Then there were those pages which warn that virt-manager didn't work > too well if bridged networking was required. > > Last but not least, when I finally gave up and installed the desktop, > virt-manager couldn't find the hypervisor. Checking up, it appears > that the user needed additional permissions to certain files, which > after given and tested via CLI, I still get errors. > > Starting up X as root gave me this ominous warning that I really > shouldn't be doing this and since I didn't think it was wise in the > first place to have the desktop with root access running on what's > supposed to be a production machine, I stopped trying that route and > went back to figuring how to get virt-install to work. You don't have to run an entire X desktop on the server to use virt-manager there. If you have a graphical linux workstation on the same network (x can be slow across a WAN, so I would only do it locally), you can just do this from the workstation with X running: ssh -XY -l root <server_name> then from the server do this: virt-manager This will run just the application "virt-manager" on the server and push the video display back to your machine. You may need to run this on the workstation before you ssh to the server machine: xhost + -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 253 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110428/4116dbce/attachment-0005.sig>