@kelly Doesn't work on Home

I did an in place upgrade of Windows 10 and it looks to have resolved the issue.

I have a Windows 10 machine that uses the XPS driver to print from Quickbooks. I can re-install the XPS printer but when I get to the part for the driver and click on Microsoft XPS Document Writer v4 isn't one of the choices. There are other choices but it looks like the v4 is the default.

@jaredbusch said in Manage KVM through Cockpit:

@ccwtech said in Manage KVM through Cockpit:

@jaredbusch said in Manage KVM through Cockpit:

@ccwtech said in Manage KVM through Cockpit:

@dustinb3403 said in Manage KVM through Cockpit:

@scottalanmiller "there is no backup API or CBT on KVM" these are big items to not have out of the gate.

So being forced to used a 3rd party appliance (even if it were Veeam or UrBackup) would me more that needs to be managed.

That's lack of feature alone makes me question if KVM is production ready and would remove it from my shortlist for 2018.

Youtube Video – [09:27..]

@scottalanmiller is the person who suggested I should use KVM... But if you have an agent based backup it doesn't really matter.

Agent based totally matters for people like you that have no idea what they are doing.

It matters even for people like Scott because of the many reasons that @StorageNinja listed in the last 24 hours. Scott just refuses to listen to reason when it comes to his current favorite shiny thing.

I'll let Scott respond to that.

Yes, I don't have any idea of what I am doing. That's why this is a LAB environment, so that I can learn. Even if I don't go with it for production, the worst that can happen is I learn more about linux.

No, that part is exactly the right way to go. But those are the reasons I won't use KVM in production yet at most of my clients.

What do you use for virtualization for a Windows Server?

@jaredbusch said in Manage KVM through Cockpit:

@ccwtech said in Manage KVM through Cockpit:

@dustinb3403 said in Manage KVM through Cockpit:

@scottalanmiller "there is no backup API or CBT on KVM" these are big items to not have out of the gate.

So being forced to used a 3rd party appliance (even if it were Veeam or UrBackup) would me more that needs to be managed.

That's lack of feature alone makes me question if KVM is production ready and would remove it from my shortlist for 2018.

Youtube Video – [09:27..]

@scottalanmiller is the person who suggested I should use KVM... But if you have an agent based backup it doesn't really matter.

Agent based totally matters for people like you that have no idea what they are doing.

It matters even for people like Scott because of the many reasons that @StorageNinja listed in the last 24 hours. Scott just refuses to listen to reason when it comes to his current favorite shiny thing.

I'll let Scott respond to that.

Yes, I don't have any idea of what I am doing. That's why this is a LAB environment, so that I can learn. Even if I don't go with it for production, the worst that can happen is I learn more about linux.

@ccwtech said in Manage KVM through Cockpit:

@stacksofplates said in Manage KVM through Cockpit:

@ccwtech said in Manage KVM through Cockpit:

@stacksofplates said in Manage KVM through Cockpit:

@ccwtech said in Manage KVM through Cockpit:

I think I have it figured out but don't know how to actually implement it. I'm running Fedora Server 28 Headless - so I have the ISO file for the drivers in /usr/share/virtio-win

I think I just need to mount the ISO for the VM but not sure how to do that.

Easiest for a first timer is virt-manager. Just click the IDE CDROM device and then click connect. You can pick your ISO from the browser.

Can you use virt-manager on a headless install?

Yeah. You can either X11 forward from the remote system or use a local install and SSH/HTTP/HTTPS for the QEMU connection.

Sadly virt-manager is the easiest for some things like attaching ISOs. The domain has to be running to attach an ISO however you can't hotplug an IDE device. So you're left with editing the XML for the domain. It's not hard just virsh edit vmname but still annoying.

Like this example:

<disk type='file' device='cdrom'>
<driver name='file'/>
<source file='/usr/share/xenpv-win-32bit/xenpv-win-32bit.iso'/>
<target dev='hdb'/>
<readonly/>
</disk>

So that worked, I have the CD mounted and can browse to the drivers, however none of them work. I have tried to change the Virtual disk from SCSI to Sata, SCSI and VirtIO but can't seem to get any drivers to allow me to actually install the OS.

@dustinb3403 said in Manage KVM through Cockpit:

@scottalanmiller "there is no backup API or CBT on KVM" these are big items to not have out of the gate.

So being forced to used a 3rd party appliance (even if it were Veeam or UrBackup) would me more that needs to be managed.

That's lack of feature alone makes me question if KVM is production ready and would remove it from my shortlist for 2018.

Youtube Video – [09:27..]

@scottalanmiller is the person who suggested I should use KVM... But if you have an agent based backup it doesn't really matter.

@stacksofplates said in Manage KVM through Cockpit:

@ccwtech said in Manage KVM through Cockpit:

@stacksofplates said in Manage KVM through Cockpit:

@ccwtech said in Manage KVM through Cockpit:

I think I have it figured out but don't know how to actually implement it. I'm running Fedora Server 28 Headless - so I have the ISO file for the drivers in /usr/share/virtio-win

I think I just need to mount the ISO for the VM but not sure how to do that.

Easiest for a first timer is virt-manager. Just click the IDE CDROM device and then click connect. You can pick your ISO from the browser.

Can you use virt-manager on a headless install?

Yeah. You can either X11 forward from the remote system or use a local install and SSH/HTTP/HTTPS for the QEMU connection.

Sadly virt-manager is the easiest for some things like attaching ISOs. The domain has to be running to attach an ISO however you can't hotplug an IDE device. So you're left with editing the XML for the domain. It's not hard just virsh edit vmname but still annoying.

Like this example:

<disk type='file' device='cdrom'>
<driver name='file'/>
<source file='/usr/share/xenpv-win-32bit/xenpv-win-32bit.iso'/>
<target dev='hdb'/>
<readonly/>
</disk>

@jaredbusch said in Manage KVM through Cockpit:

@ccwtech said in Manage KVM through Cockpit:

@stacksofplates said in Manage KVM through Cockpit:

@ccwtech said in Manage KVM through Cockpit:

I think I have it figured out but don't know how to actually implement it. I'm running Fedora Server 28 Headless - so I have the ISO file for the drivers in /usr/share/virtio-win

I think I just need to mount the ISO for the VM but not sure how to do that.

Easiest for a first timer is virt-manager. Just click the IDE CDROM device and then click connect. You can pick your ISO from the browser.

Can you use virt-manager on a headless install?

You use virt-manager locally.

I get this error in terminal in cockpit as well as locally.

(virt-manager:5847): Gtk-WARNING **: 18:44:07.397: cannot open display:

@stacksofplates said in Manage KVM through Cockpit:

@ccwtech said in Manage KVM through Cockpit:

I think I have it figured out but don't know how to actually implement it. I'm running Fedora Server 28 Headless - so I have the ISO file for the drivers in /usr/share/virtio-win

I think I just need to mount the ISO for the VM but not sure how to do that.

Easiest for a first timer is virt-manager. Just click the IDE CDROM device and then click connect. You can pick your ISO from the browser.

Can you use virt-manager on a headless install?