Re: [Xen-users] Xen Adminsitrator, RHEL5?

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Williamson wrote:
> Hi Ugo,
>
>   
> > I've read some doc and there seems to be only the virsh command or the
> > Virtual Machine Manager available to manage xen on RHEL AP.
> >     
> You can also use the Xen xm commandline tool directly.
>
>   
> > Is is 
> > possible to use the Xen Administrator Console?
> >     
> I think this is part of the proprietary XenSource / Citrix Xen product.  It's 
> not available in the open source codebase or, consequently, in RHEL...
>   
I can confirm this. I'd like to see a webmin utility, but lack time and 
the Webmin module authoring experience to write one. Much like Nagios, 
there seem to be quite a few badly written bits of abandonware that show 
up if you go looking for open source tools for this: it's a lack of both 
Xen and VMware.
> > Since I don't install X on the host machine, it may be usefull, at least
> > at the beginning.
> >     
> You don't need to run an X server on the machine in order to use virt-manager; 
> if you have the relevant X libraries installed (which, depending on the RHEL 
> packaging, might be possible without actually installing the X server) then 
> you can ssh -X to that host from another system, then run virt-manager to 
> have the app forwarded across the network to your local display.  This is how 
> I usually manage my RHEL machine.
>   
Or run VNC, which also needs some X libraries and utilities. But 
compared to a fully equipped modern system, the small number of X 
utilities needed for this to work is quite small.
RedHat also has some expensive but powerful tools in their RHN 
utilities, which cost a pretty penny but are quite sweet for running 
such environments. I just wish they'd finish replacing Anaconda, their 
OS installer toolset, with something that actually works and can be 
configured properly.
> Alternatively, you can (I think) run virt-manager on your local workstation 
> and have it connect to the remote Xen machine.  There is an example setup 
> using SSH as a secure transport here: 
> http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/page/RemoteSSH and there are several other 
> kinds of remote management setup linked from here: 
> http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/page/Main_Page
> Hope that helps you,
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>
>   
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