@jaredbusch said in The Ultimate KVM setup:

@mattbagan said in The Ultimate KVM setup:

@tim_g said in The Ultimate KVM setup:

@mattbagan said in The Ultimate KVM setup:

@tim_g said in The Ultimate KVM setup:

@mattbagan said in The Ultimate KVM setup:

@tim_g said in The Ultimate KVM setup:

@mattbagan said in The Ultimate KVM setup:

I'm having a hard time following this. So we have one(two) KVM host, fedora instance running virt manger, another fedora running vnc server?

Install Cockpit: dnf install cockpit cockpit-machines
Then do a dnf group install "Virtualization".

Set each VM to use SPICE and VNC. You can get VM console access via Cockpit and the VNC display.

cockpit gets installed on the KVM host?

Yes.

Can I create VMs within cockpit? I do not see an option for that.

No, but you can connect to your KVM host via virt-manager from another Linux PC.

Or do a search for my Kimchi guide:

https://mangolassi.it/topic/14675/fedora-26-kvm-html5-remote-access-with-web-console-via-kimchi

Guide is here:
https://www.timothygruber.com/linux/fedora-26-kvm-html5-remote-access-with-web-console-via-kimchi-part-1/

I have tried connecting virt manger to my KVM host but I get all kinds of errors. Not sure if I am doing it right. Do you have a guide for connecting to a remote KVM host with virt manger for a non-root user? I get lots of accessed denied. I did end up finding your guide after searching cockpit on the forum.

You have to put your user in the virtual manager group. Forget the proper name of the group.

@stacksofplates knows it

libvirtd

@tim_g said in Manage KVM through Cockpit:

@tim_g said in Manage KVM through Cockpit:

@stacksofplates said in Manage KVM through Cockpit:

CentOS 7 now has the VM console as long as the VM has VNC graphics. You don't need to remove SPICE, you can just add VNC also.

What did you do to be able to see the terminal in Cockpit? When I try I just see "Manual Connection" connection info, and a button to launch Remote Viewer. I do have both SPICE and VNC display added.

When I'm using In-Browser Viewer, I don't get anything.

Oh, it was hidden. When I resized my web browser, it showed the "Password Required" box.

In order for me to see that, I have to resize my web browser every time. If it's maximized, I have to un-maximize it, and then maximize it again, or resize it any way period to get it to show. Weird.

Hmm. I don't have that issue. That's interesting.

I keep it on for my account if I can on that machine but everything controlled by CM doesn't have it. The CM account is locked so you can't log in through the console, only SSH with a key.

Root gets a random password that no one knows.

@tim_g said in Manage KVM through Cockpit:

If I have the VNC connection passworded, in Cockpit after entering the password, it gives an error: "Failed to connect to server (code: 1006)".

If I do not use a password, it works fine. Anyone else run into this?

No I haven't used that function.

@mike-davis said in Notorious Short-seller labels Ubiquiti Networks $UBNT as FRAUD:

@jaredbusch said in Notorious Short-seller labels Ubiquiti Networks $UBNT as FRAUD:

Not sure what HPE is doing with it all now.

This topic should fork, but I just configured my first Aruba branded HP Procurve today. I needed something with MAC filtering and as much as I looked, I couldn't find a Ubiquiti switch that did that. (I'm posting this in hopes someone can point out that they now have it.)

At any rate, the switch shipped with an HP firmware and Aruba painted on the outside. I poked around the web interface long enough to find the firmware update and then updated the firmware. The Aruba interface was way better visually. I don't know if any functionality was added, but there were a few things missing from the GUI. For example, you could set MAC address filtering on a port, but you couldn't view the MAC table in the GUI.

You mean static MAC assignment?

There is also filtering for multiple ports

I don't understand what the video is supposed to show?

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@stacksofplates said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Got my 5th edition yesterday. Skimming through, they cover CM and CI/CD really well.

UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook (5th Edition) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0134277554/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_jJoWzbZTW7J44

I have the 4th edition has a lot changed?

I didn't have the 4th so I'm not sure.

Got my 5th edition yesterday. Skimming through, they cover CM and CI/CD really well.

UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook (5th Edition) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0134277554/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_jJoWzbZTW7J44

@quixoticjeremy said in Salt Question:

@stacksofplates Likely no, our checkins are done via our own scheduling. Would not think that altering that would effect us.

Ah ok. Sounds good.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

On a call. Realizing how much I detest OneDrive. Totally useless.

I've had good luck with it so far. What are your pain points?

No way to download or open files. It forces the opening of the file to Word Online, which doesn't work, and doesn't let me download to open it with an application that actually works.

I think you need to do a screen recording of this stuff someday. These sound like the weirdest issues.