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I'm impressed nobody mentioned libvirt (https://libvirt.org/ https://libvirt.org/) here, an open source framework for managing all kind of virtualization platfo
by ktpsns 8y ago
I'm impressed nobody mentioned libvirt (https://libvirt.org/ https://libvirt.org/) here, an open source framework for managing all kind of virtualization platforms. It is especially well suited to take off all heavy work of managing QEMU. From the features, Virt-Manager (https://virt-manager.org/ https://virt-manager.org/) can compete with VirtualBox -- and is probably well beyond, thanks to network transparency, the Spice protocol, real guest console access, powerful CLI interfaces such as `virsh` and other goodies.
In Linux distributions, you basically install `virt-manager` and the package manager will resolve all dependencies to provide you a fully working virtualization desktop software which is well capable to be used on servers.
- therealmarv 8y agoFun fact: Virt manager (plus the good stuff like e.g. splice) runs also natively on macOS and makes it easy to control remote Linux VMs: https://github.com/jeffreywildman/homebrew-virt-manager https://github.com/jeffreywildman/homebrew-virt-manager
- kashyapc 8y agoPrecisely so. Couple of us have mentioned libvirt as a recommendation in the comment threads above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19736609 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19736609 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19736722 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19736722