[CentOS] Hypervisor and access method for workstation VM

Mon Nov 19 18:30:32 UTC 2018
Barak Korren <bkorren at redhat.com>

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
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