After rereading my comment, wrt to the parts about KVM... I realizing I may have been trying to use KVM in a manner other than how it was intended to be used.

After rereading my comment, wrt to the parts about KVM... I realizing I may have been trying to use KVM in a manner other than how it was intended to be used. Initially, my experience with virtualization was just desktop products. Now I run a vSphere host in my home office, and admin several clusters for work. I have read elsewhere that KVM is basically just the plumbing for the virtualization, and I was trying to use it with a front end like virt-manager, and KVM is basically just the back end piece. I'm prepared to be corrected/educated on this. Open mind here. Definitely have a bias to VMware, but I'd like to know more about the competition.