Virt-Manager on multiple pc's
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 Do you have https://virt-manager.org/ on multiple pc's? How did you "export" the configs? 
 How do you keep them in sync?
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 @FATeknollogee said in Virt-Manager on multiple pc's: Do you have https://virt-manager.org/ on multiple pc's? How did you "export" the configs? 
 How do you keep them in sync?I've got it on 3 (2 Ubuntu systems and 1 Windows system)... The configuration is stored on the KVM host you are connecting to. I've not had to export anything or keep any of my 3 systems in sync. Just tell it which KVM server to connect to, and off we go. 
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 That means having to re-enter those connections every time you have a new device? 
 If you only have a few hosts, no big deal.
 If you have like 50, that's a real PITA
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 @FATeknollogee said in Virt-Manager on multiple pc's: That means having to re-enter those connections every time you have a new device? 
 If you only have a few hosts, no big deal.
 If you have like 50, that's a real PITAGood point. 
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 I read somewhere that you can copy the config in the dconf, I have not tried this! 
  
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 Copying the contents in "Custom value" & pasting them in a new install works. 
 I still need to do some further testing. 
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 Hmm interesting work with 50 VMs on it, good job. Whats the specs of the hypervisor ? try looking here /etc/dconf/db/database.d/ 
 https://developer.gnome.org/dconf/unstable/dconf-overview.html
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 sudo apt install dconf-cli dconf dump /org/virt-manager/the above for all virt manager settings, if you just want connections dconf dump /org/virt-manager/virt-manager/connections/I cant believe linux has registry like shit to hide your settings in it. 
 to summarize:dconf dump /org/virt-manager/virt-manager/connections/ > backup.txt dconf load /org/virt-manager/virt-manager/connections/ < backup.txt
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 @Emad-R said in Virt-Manager on multiple pc's: Hmm interesting work with 50 VMs on it, good job. Whats the specs of the hypervisor ? Not 50 vm's, 50 hosts. 
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 @Emad-R said in Virt-Manager on multiple pc's: Hmm interesting work with 50 VMs on it, good job. Whats the specs of the hypervisor ? try looking here /etc/dconf/db/database.d/ 
 https://developer.gnome.org/dconf/unstable/dconf-overview.htmlVirt-manager connections to individual VMs? What? 
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 @FATeknollogee said in Virt-Manager on multiple pc's: @Emad-R said in Virt-Manager on multiple pc's: Hmm interesting work with 50 VMs on it, good job. Whats the specs of the hypervisor ? Not 50 vm's, 50 hosts. @FATeknollogee said in Virt-Manager on multiple pc's: @Emad-R said in Virt-Manager on multiple pc's: Hmm interesting work with 50 VMs on it, good job. Whats the specs of the hypervisor ? Not 50 vm's, 50 hosts. You have 50 virtualization platforms? 
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 @scottalanmiller said in Virt-Manager on multiple pc's: @FATeknollogee said in Virt-Manager on multiple pc's: @Emad-R said in Virt-Manager on multiple pc's: Hmm interesting work with 50 VMs on it, good job. Whats the specs of the hypervisor ? Not 50 vm's, 50 hosts. @FATeknollogee said in Virt-Manager on multiple pc's: @Emad-R said in Virt-Manager on multiple pc's: Hmm interesting work with 50 VMs on it, good job. Whats the specs of the hypervisor ? Not 50 vm's, 50 hosts. You have 50 virtualization platforms? No, it was just an example to illustrate what a PITA it would be to enter xx number of connections everytime you have a new instance ot virt-manager. 
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 @FATeknollogee said in Virt-Manager on multiple pc's: @scottalanmiller said in Virt-Manager on multiple pc's: @FATeknollogee said in Virt-Manager on multiple pc's: @Emad-R said in Virt-Manager on multiple pc's: Hmm interesting work with 50 VMs on it, good job. Whats the specs of the hypervisor ? Not 50 vm's, 50 hosts. @FATeknollogee said in Virt-Manager on multiple pc's: @Emad-R said in Virt-Manager on multiple pc's: Hmm interesting work with 50 VMs on it, good job. Whats the specs of the hypervisor ? Not 50 vm's, 50 hosts. You have 50 virtualization platforms? No, it was just an example to illustrate what a PITA it would be to enter xx number of connections everytime you have a new instance ot virt-manager. I’m not seeing the issue here. Where would you be that would have that kind of infrastructure and no automation for SSH key authentication? 
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 @JaredBusch said in Virt-Manager on multiple pc's: @FATeknollogee said in Virt-Manager on multiple pc's: @scottalanmiller said in Virt-Manager on multiple pc's: @FATeknollogee said in Virt-Manager on multiple pc's: @Emad-R said in Virt-Manager on multiple pc's: Hmm interesting work with 50 VMs on it, good job. Whats the specs of the hypervisor ? Not 50 vm's, 50 hosts. @FATeknollogee said in Virt-Manager on multiple pc's: @Emad-R said in Virt-Manager on multiple pc's: Hmm interesting work with 50 VMs on it, good job. Whats the specs of the hypervisor ? Not 50 vm's, 50 hosts. You have 50 virtualization platforms? No, it was just an example to illustrate what a PITA it would be to enter xx number of connections everytime you have a new instance ot virt-manager. I’m not seeing the issue here. Where would you be that would have that kind of infrastructure and no automation for SSH key authentication? I think he's saying that if he had to replace his laptop he'd have to manually add those 50 connections back into Virt-Manager. 
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 Anyone can make up stupid scenarios to make any solution look bad. 
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 @stacksofplates said in Virt-Manager on multiple pc's: @JaredBusch said in Virt-Manager on multiple pc's: @FATeknollogee said in Virt-Manager on multiple pc's: @scottalanmiller said in Virt-Manager on multiple pc's: @FATeknollogee said in Virt-Manager on multiple pc's: @Emad-R said in Virt-Manager on multiple pc's: Hmm interesting work with 50 VMs on it, good job. Whats the specs of the hypervisor ? Not 50 vm's, 50 hosts. @FATeknollogee said in Virt-Manager on multiple pc's: @Emad-R said in Virt-Manager on multiple pc's: Hmm interesting work with 50 VMs on it, good job. Whats the specs of the hypervisor ? Not 50 vm's, 50 hosts. You have 50 virtualization platforms? No, it was just an example to illustrate what a PITA it would be to enter xx number of connections everytime you have a new instance ot virt-manager. I’m not seeing the issue here. Where would you be that would have that kind of infrastructure and no automation for SSH key authentication? I think he's saying that if he had to replace his laptop he'd have to manually add those 50 connections back into Virt-Manager. Yes, thanks! 
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 @JaredBusch said in Virt-Manager on multiple pc's: Anyone can make up stupid scenarios to make any solution look bad. I have a desktop & 2 laptops, what's so stupid about that? 
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 Anyone check the man page for virt-manager? 
 Make a creative script to automatically add all your kvm servers.
 And its even easier when using SSH keys.virt-manager -c qemu+ssh://user@ip-address/system
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 @FATeknollogee said in Virt-Manager on multiple pc's: @JaredBusch said in Virt-Manager on multiple pc's: Anyone can make up stupid scenarios to make any solution look bad. I have a desktop & 2 laptops, what's so stupid about that? 50 KVM hosts with no centralized management already planned 





