<quote who="Sridhar Dhanapalan"> > 2009/3/18 Jeff Waugh <[email protected]>: > > Depends on what you mean by manage, but if you're trying to avoid being > > a part time sysadmin, then something clicky might be best. > > I have no aversion to the CLI. I spend half my time in there and I'm quite > fond of it for some things. I often type vim keybindings into GUI apps > without thinking :) > > Some admin is fine, but to a large degree I'd want it to 'just work' with > minimal intervention. > > I suppose I'm looking for something that's 'easy to manage' but not > necessarily 'dumb' :)
Clicky isn't dumb, it's just a different way of approaching the problem. > > But if you want something nicer, use VMWare Server (free but not Free). > > I have used VMware server a fair bit, and in fact I upgraded to version 2 > today and was quite impressed. I would prefer something FOSS, though. > > Virtualbox has always struck me as a desktop solution, although I haven't > used it much so I might be wrong. It is easy to manage remotely? Can I > bring up VM GUIs over the network? virtualbox -startvm <vmname> ... then use RDP to talk directly to the guest. There are a whole range of CLI tools such as vboxmanage (which is amazingly capable, without being insane to use). Plus stuff to manage disk images and so on. Don't test VirtualBox and VMWare at the same time though. Bad things happen. :-) - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2010: Wellington, NZ http://www.penguinsvisiting.org.nz/ It makes perfect sense. If you're a narcissistic arsehole spawned from a curdled gene pool. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
