virt-manager for Windows
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You can use Xming and just leverage the regular virt-manager via X11, no needs to use different clients. Be careful, virt-manager is on its way on being deprecated. Use virsh and spice-client or a VNC client to access the VMs virtual consoles.
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@Francesco-Provino said in virt-manager for Windows:
You can use Xming and just leverage the regular virt-manager via X11, no needs to use different clients. Be careful, virt-manager is on its way on being deprecated. Use virsh and spice-client or a VNC client to access the VMs virtual consoles.
The goal isn't to access just the VM console, but the hypervisor itself with a fat client.
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@Francesco-Provino said in virt-manager for Windows:
You can use Xming and just leverage the regular virt-manager via X11, no needs to use different clients. Be careful, virt-manager is on its way on being deprecated. Use virsh and spice-client or a VNC client to access the VMs virtual cons
No GUI on the server.
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I have to ask @scottalanmiller , why the weird requirement of a fat client on windows to manage KVM?
I know someone mentioned it, but is Cockpit not sufficient?
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Assuming virt-manager is installed on the KVM server.
On Windows
choco install xming putty -y- Load Xming not XLaunch
- Open putty, and go to Connection > SSH > X11 > Enable X11 forwarding and enter
localhost:0.0for X display location.
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@black3dynamite said in virt-manager for Windows:
Assuming virt-manager is installed on the KVM server.
It would not be, that would not make sense. LOL
That would be different in every way. That's not virt-manager on Windows, that's just remoting into a remote system. If we had a GUI on there, we'd just use MeshCentral.
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@scottalanmiller said in virt-manager for Windows:
@black3dynamite said in virt-manager for Windows:
Assuming virt-manager is installed on the KVM server.
It would not be, that would not make sense. LOL
That would be different in every way. That's not virt-manager on Windows, that's just remoting into a remote system. If we had a GUI on there, we'd just use MeshCentral.
What's preventing you from using a headless GUI? I was doing that **** in the mid 90s on IRIX, what's changed that it wouldn't work now?
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@travisdh1 said in virt-manager for Windows:
@scottalanmiller said in virt-manager for Windows:
@black3dynamite said in virt-manager for Windows:
Assuming virt-manager is installed on the KVM server.
It would not be, that would not make sense. LOL
That would be different in every way. That's not virt-manager on Windows, that's just remoting into a remote system. If we had a GUI on there, we'd just use MeshCentral.
What's preventing you from using a headless GUI? I was doing that **** in the mid 90s on IRIX, what's changed that it wouldn't work now?
Other than it's a really poor way to do things? What's wrong with wanting a good solution? We have a good solution on Linux, talking over an API. It is very efficient. Doing remote desktops to many machines is 1) ridiculous 2) insanely inefficient 3) a different result - how would you see all those systems in the same GUI?
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@scottalanmiller said in virt-manager for Windows:
@travisdh1 said in virt-manager for Windows:
@scottalanmiller said in virt-manager for Windows:
@black3dynamite said in virt-manager for Windows:
Assuming virt-manager is installed on the KVM server.
It would not be, that would not make sense. LOL
That would be different in every way. That's not virt-manager on Windows, that's just remoting into a remote system. If we had a GUI on there, we'd just use MeshCentral.
What's preventing you from using a headless GUI? I was doing that **** in the mid 90s on IRIX, what's changed that it wouldn't work now?
Other than it's a really poor way to do things? What's wrong with wanting a good solution? We have a good solution on Linux, talking over an API. It is very efficient. Doing remote desktops to many machines is 1) ridiculous 2) insanely inefficient 3) a different result - how would you see all those systems in the same GUI?
You need access to 1 instance of virt-manager, which you can then manage any other KVM server on the same network.
I agree that it's not a great solution, but there is no great solution here, only picking which is the least painful way to access the thing. Unless you want to take my snark from earlier seriously and compile virt-manager for Windows yourself.
In short, there is no thing that does what you want. If there was, my home lab would be running KVM instead of XCP-ng.
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@scottalanmiller said in virt-manager for Windows:
@black3dynamite said in virt-manager for Windows:
Assuming virt-manager is installed on the KVM server.
It would not be, that would not make sense. LOL
That would be different in every way. That's not virt-manager on Windows, that's just remoting into a remote system. If we had a GUI on there, we'd just use MeshCentral.
What? You don't need a GUI to use X11 Forwarding. You installing virt-manager, not a windows manager or desktop environment.
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@black3dynamite said in virt-manager for Windows:
What? You don't need a GUI to use X11 Forwarding. You installing virt-manager, not a windows manager or desktop environment.
You don't need all of the GUI, but you need the back end of it. It's a remote view that you are transmitting. Like RDP to an RDS server.
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You can actually install it using the WSL and/or Cygwin, I posted some screenshots I think on 2017, it didn't all work back then so it might be worth it to revisit it and test it out
WSL
CYGWIN
Edit: heres the post back then https://mangolassi.it/post/359372
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@Romo that might be just the solution that @scottalanmiller would have to use if he requires this.
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Oh, that gets me thinking, I bet the Ubuntu layer would solve this. Brilliant.
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I have Virt-Manager running on Windows through Cygwin/X. It works great once you set up the SSH key authentication.
Edit:
Here's a link to some very rudimentary documentation I was working on to make it work.
https://stack.wellston.biz/books/configuring-virt-manager-to-run-on-windows
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I got it working, directions forthcoming but it is SO easy.
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@DustinB3403 obvious. That’s exactly what Xming+virt-manager provides.
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@scottalanmiller you don’t want a GUI on the virtualization host, ever. Just spin a VM with virt-manager and launch it on your local machine with xming or one of the other solutions in the other comments.
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@Francesco-Provino said in virt-manager for Windows:
@scottalanmiller you don’t want a GUI on the virtualization host, ever. Just spin a VM with virt-manager and launch it on your local machine with xming or one of the other solutions in the other comments.
He’s not doing it on the host. That is Windows 10, obviously not the KVM host.
