Hi Barry, Please note that I've been involved with oVirt for a while now, so my answers may be slightly biased... בתאריך יום ב׳, 19 בנוב׳ 2018, 17:30, מאת Barry Brimer <lists at brimer.org>: > I am planning to set up a virtualization host to host a Linux workstation > VM. It may also host a Windows VM down the road but not on the initial > list. I'm looking for suggestions as far as: > > * oVirt or CentOS? (Did I miss a CentOS equivalent of RHV somewhere?) I'm > not interested in running VMware. Is it easy to upgrade oVirt or is it > disruptive to do so? > Well, I wouldn't say that's an either/or question as oVirt is pretty much built on top of CentOS these days. Now, oVirt only really becomes interesting when you have 3 or more hypervisor hosts. In that configuration you can have pretty smooth zero-downtime upgrades. If youre only going to have one host, I'd opt for CentOS + qemu-kvm-ev + Cockpit/virt-manager/boxes. * Does anyone have real world experience running SPICE over a WAN with > VPN? I hear great things about SPICE .. but haven't heard much about how > it performs over a WAN .. which in this case is the Internet with an > SSL-based VPN. > Well, I've used it with OpenVPN over the internet and it worked ok. But so far only for server textual consoles, so can't say much about how well would it stream GUI. I have plenty of Linux experience and am very comfortable with a command > line and config files, but wouldn't mind a graphical interface for some of > the virtualization components. I may expand to a second virtualization > host at some point, but it is not in the initial plan. > Well the virt-* suit of commands and virsh give you a lot of power in the command line. Especially virt-builder that can give you working pre-built VM images, but sometimes it's just quicker to get up and running with a GUI tool like virt-manager. > Any suggestions would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > Barry > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >