On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 1:49 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen at iki.fi> wrote: > >> ESX(i) also requires windows server + management client and Citrix >> XenServer also requires windows management client. >> >> VirtManager + RHEL 5/6 does not require use of windows client. > > virt-manager is too stupid to be permitted to live outside of an > intensive care unit. It completely mishandles configuration options > that are easily available from the command line, such as the use of > mutliple disk drives at image setup time, and has very poor handling > of randomized NIC configurations, and it behaves extremely poorly over > remote X connections. It also has no clue and little capability to > properly handle pair-bonded connections for high reliability upstream > connectivity. For basic management and a bit more virt-manager does the job. And for me it works perfectly well over ssh.