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    Setting up a Fedora Workstation to Manage KVM with Virt-Manager - Remote access solutions

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    • hobbit666H
      hobbit666
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      My "Daily Driver" is Windows 10 Pro

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      • Reid CooperR
        Reid Cooper @hobbit666
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        @hobbit666 said in Setting up a Fedora Workstation to Manage KVM with Virt-Manager - Remote access solutions:

        1. As you suggest, install a Linux VM and within that VM use Virt-Viewer.

        For more common would be to install oVirt in a VM for that.

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        • DustinB3403D
          DustinB3403 @hobbit666
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          @hobbit666 said in Setting up a Fedora Workstation to Manage KVM with Virt-Manager - Remote access solutions:

          My "Daily Driver" is Windows 10 Pro

          Just create a (Fedora Workstation) VM on the hypervisor and use Virt-Viewer from Windows 10 to access that VM and manage the hypervisor with Virt-Manager on that Fedora Workstation.

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          • DashrenderD
            Dashrender @DustinB3403
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            @DustinB3403 said in Setting up a Fedora Workstation to Manage KVM with Virt-Manager - Remote access solutions:

            With virt-viewer, since it seems @hobbit666 doesn't seem to want to use a Type 1 or Type 2 on his Windows 10 Pro (yes Hyper-v capable but for specific reasons he doesn't want to use it, don't go down the rabbit hole) would have to create his first guest on KVM using Cockpit.

            Once the VM is running through cockpit he could then use Virt-Viewer to access and manage the host.

            Without reading the rest of the thread - this seems like a failure already. Why not? What's wrong with using a type 1 or Type 2 hypervisor to have a local VM on the primary machine the person is using - only reason I can think of - that the admin will frequently be moving computers or using a chromebook, so the tools for remote management won't generally be available. - but - then how do you remote into the management VM remotely? I guess that's why he specifically asked about VNC - because he feels that he can run that from anywhere to remote into the management VM?

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            • DustinB3403D
              DustinB3403 @Dashrender
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              @Dashrender you went into why he doesn't want to do the very thing I said he doesn't want to do it.

              Answer : Because he hates Hyper-V and doesn't want to go down the route of VBox etc. So we have to answer the question he has.

              Which means: he needs to create a management VM on his host and access that using the least intrusive tool/solution possible.

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              • DashrenderD
                Dashrender @DustinB3403
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                @DustinB3403 said in Setting up a Fedora Workstation to Manage KVM with Virt-Manager - Remote access solutions:

                @Dashrender you went into why he doesn't want to do the very thing I said he doesn't want to do it.

                Answer : Because he hates Hyper-V and doesn't want to go down the route of VBox etc. So we have to answer the question he has.

                Which means: he needs to create a management VM on his host and access that using the least intrusive tool/solution possible.

                I don't consider these reasonable for IT personal. there I said it.

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                • DustinB3403D
                  DustinB3403 @Dashrender
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                  @Dashrender said in Setting up a Fedora Workstation to Manage KVM with Virt-Manager - Remote access solutions:

                  I don't consider these reasonable for IT personal. there I said it.

                  What don't you consider reasonable? A management VM on-top of the hypervisor he is using or hating Hyper-V/vBox etc?

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                  • DashrenderD
                    Dashrender @DustinB3403
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                    @DustinB3403 said in Setting up a Fedora Workstation to Manage KVM with Virt-Manager - Remote access solutions:

                    @Dashrender said in Setting up a Fedora Workstation to Manage KVM with Virt-Manager - Remote access solutions:

                    I don't consider these reasonable for IT personal. there I said it.

                    What don't you consider reasonable? A management VM on-top of the hypervisor he is using or hating Hyper-V/vBox etc?

                    Reasons to not use them.

                    I gave perfectly sound reasons for using/having a management VM on a host. Of course, they don't matter if the host itself is hosed.

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                    • DustinB3403D
                      DustinB3403 @Dashrender
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                      @Dashrender said in Setting up a Fedora Workstation to Manage KVM with Virt-Manager - Remote access solutions:

                      Reasons to not use them.

                      I'm still not following

                      @Dashrender said in Setting up a Fedora Workstation to Manage KVM with Virt-Manager - Remote access solutions:

                      I gave perfectly sound reasons for using/having a management VM on a host. Of course, they don't matter if the host itself is hosed.

                      Where?

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                      • DustinB3403D
                        DustinB3403
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                        @Dashrender think of this as XOCE to XenServer/XCP-ng but with a desktop instead of a web interface.

                        Literally nothing different and is completely normal.

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