Thanks to you guys I got it sorted out now!

@emad-r said in Nested hypervisors?:

also as vendor they dont want the complexity advantages of Virtualization

ftfy

@emad-r yes, yes we can complain.

It's why NN is so damn important! (even though it's dead now. . .)

In Remote Viewer, click View > Displays > check Monitor 1/2/3 etc, after setting up like below.

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Good stuff. Thanks for pointing this up and writing it up.

@Emad-R

Didn't know it wasn't included in there. But I didn't check either.

Just wondering, why not QXL video in your case?

@jaredbusch said in KVM Virtual Machine Boot Order:

@obsolesce said in KVM Virtual Machine Boot Order:

@matteo-nunziati said in KVM Virtual Machine Boot Order:

@dustinb3403 said in KVM Virtual Machine Boot Order:

@obsolesce that's annoying. . .

Edit: still annoying but doesn't Hyper-V have startup priority?

No it hasnt until I checked 6 months ago. Only way is build a delay schema by hand and assign delays to VM batch start them in layers

Hyper-V had startup priority since 2012... fully configurable... startup action and startup delay.

This is inaccurate. There is not a priority.

Hyper has only ever had this.
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Okay, technically incorrect.... I'll give you that.

The point I was trying to make, was you can artificially set priority VM booting by adjusting the "startup delay" for each VM.

@travisdh1 said in Backup Systems without on-site external storage:

@scottalanmiller said in Backup Systems without on-site external storage:

@black3dynamite said in Backup Systems without on-site external storage:

@scottalanmiller said in Backup Systems without on-site external storage:

@black3dynamite said in Backup Systems without on-site external storage:

@obsolesce said in Backup Systems without on-site external storage:

I've recently come across Restic and looks great:

Site:
https://github.com/restic/restic

Documentation:
https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

I haven't tried it yet, but it's on my list to try on my KVM server using Google's cloud as a test.

I’ve only tested it with backing up nextcloud user data and it’s been working great so far.

What are you backing up to?

I only tried an external hard drive and sftp to a Linux Server. I would like to try Backblaze.

I would like to check out Wasabi.

At first glance, https://wasabi.com/pricing/ looks like it could be a little cheaper than B2. Would definitely be cheaper if you need to download significant amounts often.

That was its selling point - a bit cheaper than even B2, but with full S3 compatibility.

@matteo-nunziati f**k I will never learn how to write on a damn smartphone

@irj said in Issues with Android on KVM:

It did let me have somewhat better control and let me drag the cursor around, but still not accurate enough to use for any period of time.

Ok if I get time this afternoon I'll take another stab at it.

I'm using Fedora 28 Workstation with KVM running on cinnamon... i just use copy/paste (ctrl+C/V)

Or do you mean on a KVM-only host? (gui-less)

I haven't tried drag n drop... no idea why, but I will tomorrow!

@jaredbusch said in KVM under fedora workstation - improve performance:

I have zero issues using virt manager viewr for my local guest VM

for remote, I would use RDP or ScreenConnect.

Nothing wrong with it when needed, but it doesn't need to perform well for its role.

@obsolesce said in KVM on Fedora:

@dustinb3403 said in KVM on Fedora:

I've just added

/home/user.name/vm-storage/ defaults 1 1

to fstab, should that do?

And actually looking in the existing directories that I was going to use, nothing was there. .

Why didn't you set this up before you installed Fedora using custom partitioning?

Now, why aren't you fixing it via Cockpit?

Because im tired and running around raged.

@DustinB3403 said in Testing oVirt...:

Also I feel like the most popular instructions were a blog post, rather than official documentation.

I'm not even sure they have a dedicated techwriter. This is why it is better to just follow the official RHV docs. You'll have to filter out the Red Hat specific details, like subscription-manager, but you'll definitely have a better experience

@jaredbusch said in Ubuntu Set Default Resolution Through GRUB for VM:

@scottalanmiller said in Ubuntu Set Default Resolution Through GRUB for VM:

@aaronstuder said in Ubuntu Set Default Resolution Through GRUB for VM:

@scottalanmiller Ubuntu is a surprising choice for you 😉

Runs ScreenConnect.

So does Fedora.

Always fail when I do it, there is some trick to it. Happen to know what's needed so that it doesn't just put hashes on the screen for forever?

@emad-r said in Unable to delete KVM snapshot:

@stacksofplates said in Unable to delete KVM snapshot:

Uh there’s no difference. If you freeze the system it can’t be used. This is to run on live systems so they remain running the whole time.

What no coffee break for servers !!!

They definitely get a break if you pour coffee on them.

@scottalanmiller said in KVM & Networking:

I have currently maybe 65 VMs on my KVM host, they each have their own IPs and are bridged. But there is a firewall and NAT sitting in front of all of it.

This is really how it is most cases regardless of hypervisor.

The only exception is in non-production when dealing with KVM + Wireless NIC... I haven't had time to see if I could get it to bridge somehow, so I'm stuck with NAT on my laptop. But, this is not an issue with servers, as they don't use wireless and this seems to be specific to wireless.

@travisdh1 said in Storage Setup for KVM:

@emad-r said in Storage Setup for KVM:

@eddiejennings

keep your images and ISOs in the default location of /var/lib/libvirt/images/?

Yes I do, but I create 2 new folders there, iso and vm.

Fedora will be presented a 4 TB block device ?
Why dont you separe that a little, and have more fun. Block device I assume DAS, if no why dont you make the storage reliable and robust, and make it its own server, like another fedora or centos install, with RAID 10 and the simplest option to share is NFS, and this way you can have many KVMs and the migration feature will actually work, and you can do RAID on just /var, and you scan scale easily with KVM nodes + KVM nodes can be state file, think salt stack, and you can treat them as pure compute nodes.

Because @EddieJennings is talking about his home lab, which will consist of a single 1U server. That hadn't been mentioned in this thread.

Bah! Folks should be able to read my mind ;). There were some good ideas in this thread though.

What I decided on was giving enough space to / live comfortably, and gave everything else to /var.

@emad-r If you want diskless, look at setting up a PXE server to boot them from the network.

If you just want minimal drives locally, then go with the small SSD. I've not found a USB stick that has the same sort of write endurance yet, and have had many fail on me when being used for the OS, temp files, and logging.

Gluster would just be a normal network mount point to the compute nodes, and DRBL is another way to network boot.

Converged or hyper-converged really doesn't matter, you want the most cost effective hardware to do the job.

Without knowing more about what you're trying to accomplish, we can't give anything but generic advice, and even that could be completely wrong.