On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 10:18:57AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com> wrote: > >> > > I'm not sure that's correct. (That it's the easiest). Recently, the talk > > about going for an RHSCA made me look into KVM for the first time in > > awhile. I had to google a bit to > > get it working--not horribly difficult (would have been easier save for > > typing Bridge instead of BRIDGE in a config file, looking at it at least 10 > > times and not figuring out the error, but..). I think VBox is more > > intuitive to the newcomer, though if the OP is wondering about this for one > > of the tests, then KVM is definitely the way to go. > > Doesn't bridge creation normally work in the virt-manager GUI? It > didn't for me because I made the mistake of trying it in a remote > freenx session which bit the dust when it unconfigured the underlying > eth? interface and left a bit of a mess. But it looked like it would > have worked if run in a local X session. Not unless one has manually created a bridge. Trying on a machine without a bridge, I saw no option to use one. In addition, playing with this a bit more, I'm finding it to have poorer graphics than VBox on a couple of Linux desktops (Lubuntu), and it also seems that it doesn't see Mod4. I vaguely remember that being the case over 6 years ago, and actually contributing a patch to the FreeBSD port that fixed it. (Which was just a diff file to the BSD port Makefile). I did try using spice, but that just gave me a black screen. Note that I haven't put any serious effort into any of this--I'm mostly playing with it as a platform for a few server type installs, however, it does seem that the other two give the casual user a better out of the box experience. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6