<div dir="ltr">On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 1:20 PM, unsolicited <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:unsolicited@swiz.ca" target="_blank">unsolicited@swiz.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
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On 14-08-02 12:57 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="">
The VNC part is necessary only until I get SSH up.<br>
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Hold on ... if you're doing gui-less servers, how does vnc help, pre-ssh or no? There's a text mode vnc?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It helps if:<br><br>a. You do not know what IP address will be assigned to the new VM (did that until I was able to control the MAC address as per earlier email), or <br>
<br>b. If the server does not have ssh installed (Amazon images do have it installed, but the plain stock ISO does not, so you have to use the console).<br><br></div><div>virt-viewer on your desktop via ssh to the specific instance on the server (as per earlier email).<br>
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> virt-viewer is enough to view the console. ...<br>
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Thanks for that. Answers the KVM /BIOS attach question. i.e. How do you get to the thing without a gui long enough to chew through the text mode install. But with that (virt-viewer), I would have thought VNC would not ever be needed at all.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Look at the virt-install manual page, under Graphics<br><br><a href="http://linux.die.net/man/1/virt-install">http://linux.die.net/man/1/virt-install</a><br><br></div><div>You have VNC and other options. You can assign passwords to specific instances as well.<br>
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I have VirtualBox and KVM on the same machine. ...<br>
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What I meant was, I would have thought these multiple vm solutions would get in each others way such that you can't have all of them at the same time. (Not that one would want to, unless learning / experimenting.)<br>
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Thanks for the comment though, sounds like they will coexist peacefully. If not optimally.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think libvirt supports virtualbox as one of many underlying virtualization technologies, so in theory you can abandon using vbox directly (vboxmanage, ...etc.) and use virsh and friends to manage instances under vbox. <br>
<br></div><div>But for me, I am a minimalist, and want less components to manage, and if something works adequately, I will use it and not worry about other alternatives. So, if KVM does 90% of what VirtualBox did nicely, with less idle overhead, then I will move to it.<br>
<br>But that is me ...<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="">Was moving vm's between computers and looking around for some spare disk space instead of the hour plus per 32GB vm I was schlepping around the network at the time.<br>
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But without a faster interface to the laptop, not sure how much benefit an external SSD would be over an SD card. Especially since my laptop doesn't have USB 3. And sata is an option everywhere else, for me.<br>
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I suppose SSD's must be much faster than SD, or they'd be doing SD storage, not SSD storage.<br clear="all"></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yeah, bandwidth for storage is the new bottleneck now. It is annoying. <br>
<br>Also, not sure if USB 3.0 will be a CPU hog like its predecessors or not.<br></div></div>-- <br>Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br><a href="http://2bits.com" target="_blank">2bits.com</a>, Inc.<br>Fast Reliable Drupal<br>Drupal optimization, development, customization and consulting.<br>
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