On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 10:31 AM, Mark Clarke <[email protected]> wrote:
> What would be good, if its at the right level for 102, is to talk about
> kvm/libvirt and setting up a remote desktop sessions via spice or vnc.

Some of these details are already touched upon in LPI 304.

Although I would love to see conversations of bringing these down to
lower levels for junior admins, what day-to-day tasks might be
involved.

> Nothing more annoying than getting 20 pop-up login boxes in virt-manager.

Virt-Manager is kinda akin to VMware Player.  It's a basic, minimal solution.

<Off-Topic/Non-LPI Related>
oVirt is a backend/front-end to libvirt, including Web-based
administration console and full Virtualized Desktop Infractructure
(VDI) for managing SPICE.  oVirt, like libvirt, was originally
designed to be HyperVisor agnostic, so there was no reason it couldn't
support Xen or ESX.  But because their commercial stacks, XenServer
and vSphere, respectively, are huge, commercial cash cows, Citrix and
VMware never supported further development of oVirt for their
HyperVisors.

So oVirt has become largely KVM/SPICE-only.  Commercially it is
supported as Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV), RHEV-H being
the equivalent to ESXi, and RHEV-M being the equivalent to vSphere.
</Off-Topic>

- bjs

> On 24/10/2017 08:36, Ingo Wichmann wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I think we should think again, what todays junior sysadmin should know
>> about Linux graphical interfaces. Here are my points:
>>
>> * What does a X-Window client application need to start on a remote
>> machine and display on my local machine?
>> * What's the role of a X-Window manager here?
>> * What's the role of a X-Server here?
>> * Security implications
>>
>> I'm not sure about a simple X-Window-based terminal server: do people
>> use this? I'm aware of quite a few people using x2go.
>>
>> * How do I start a VNC Session?
>> * What's the role of a VNC Client here?
>> * What's the role of a VNC Server here?
>> * Security implications

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