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. RHEV may address its lacks, but lord, it's not good.