[libvirt-users] migrating from XenServer / XCP to libvirt/KVM

2017-03-15 Thread Daniel Pocock
I've been using XenServer / XCP (with the "xe" toolset) for a number of years for hosting servers used for development and free software projects and I'm now looking at migrating all those environments to libvirt / KVM. I had a look at the wiki[1] already and didn't see XenServer mentioned there.

[libvirt-users] building virtual desktops with libvirt, KVM, SPICE and GNOME

2017-03-15 Thread Daniel Pocock
Can anybody comment on how to host virtual desktops on a headless server using libvirt and KVM on the server and a SPICE client to access the virtual desktop? Is there a standard way of doing this? I've seen many fragments of information about how to do this but I didn't come across a single gui

Re: [libvirt-users] migrating from XenServer / XCP to libvirt/KVM

2017-03-15 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 15/03/17 10:22, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 10:10:36AM +0000, Daniel Pocock wrote: >> I've been using XenServer / XCP (with the "xe" toolset) for a number of >> years for hosting servers used for development and free software >> proje

[libvirt-users] migrated RHEL7/CentsOS7 VMs fail to boot

2017-03-20 Thread Daniel Pocock
I migrated a CentOS7 VM (the fedrtc.org site) from an XCP environment to a libvirt/KVM environment. This involved using qemu-img to convert the image from VHD to qcow2 and then using virt-install --import to define the VM in libvirt. Three problems occurred during boot: a) on the first boot, th

Re: [libvirt-users] migrated RHEL7/CentsOS7 VMs fail to boot

2017-04-03 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 20/03/17 15:02, Martin Kletzander wrote: > On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 10:18:35AM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: >> >> I migrated a CentOS7 VM (the fedrtc.org site) from an XCP >> environment to a libvirt/KVM environment. >> >> This involved using qemu-img to conve

[libvirt-users] virt-manager, Network Manager and bridged networking

2017-04-20 Thread Daniel Pocock
The wiki suggests that Network Manager doesn't support bridges[1] but I think that is out-of-date. Other documents like this[2] show how to set up bridges in Network Manager. For users wanting to run libvirt/KVM on their desktop system, can they now configure a bridge through Network Manager and

[libvirt-users] virt-manager / remote desktop latency issues

2017-04-28 Thread Daniel Pocock
Hi, I'm using virt-viewer to launch remote desktop connections The connection to the KVM host is using ssh The virtual machines/guests are running a GNOME desktop I've observed some latency issues, for example, changing focus from one terminal to another is a bit sluggish. Typing isn't too b

Re: [libvirt-users] building virtual desktops with libvirt, KVM, SPICE and GNOME

2017-05-02 Thread Daniel Pocock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 20/03/17 08:37, Martin Kletzander wrote: > On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 10:26:20AM +0000, Daniel Pocock wrote: >> >> Can anybody comment on how to host virtual desktops on a headless >> server using libvirt and KVM on the serv