Re: [Xen-devel] Xen like VirtualBox

[Jason Long <hack3rcon@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm working with XenServer too and XenServer is not a complete Linux and you 
can't work it well like Linux. You can Install Xen on your Linux and doing 
Virtualization and your daily work with Linux.



On Tuesday, November 15, 2016 1:30 PM, Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@xxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xen-devel [mailto:xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Jason Long
> Sent: 15 November 2016 06:01
> To: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@xxxxxxxxxx>; Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Xen like VirtualBox
> 
> I see you are a Citrix Employee and you and your coworkers must help Xen. I
> guess start a dedicated GUI project for Xen help Xen users like me a lot. It 
> is
> mandatory and if you see that some users use VirtualBox is it because of its
> nice GUI and not performance.
> 

Have you tried XenServer? That is Citrix's product and has a well-liked GUI. 
Why would we want another one?

  Paul


> 
> 
> On Monday, November 14, 2016 10:10 PM, Dario Faggioli
> <dario.faggioli@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-11-14 at 14:05 +0000, Jason Long wrote:
> > Thank you but the problem is that "virt-manager" is for Redhat and
> > Redhat don't like Xen anymore because of KVM.
> >
> That's not really accurate. Virt-manager is --at least last time I've
> tried, which is not too long ago-- a GUI front-end for libvirt.
> 
> It is may be true that a lot of its contributors works for or are
> related to RedHat, and it is probably still true that it does its best
> with KVM... But it actually works with Xen already (it, at least up to
> a certain extent, should work with whatever uses libvirt).
> 
> In fact, if you go to https://virt-manager.org/ , this is what you
> find:
> "The virt-manager application is a desktop user interface for managing
> virtual machines through libvirt. It primarily targets KVM VMs, but
> also manages Xen and LXC (linux containers)."
> 
> It could be made a lot better, when used on Xen, but that will only
> happen with some effort, and helping us assessing what does work and
> what does not, would be a very valuable contribution.
> 
> >  Another problem is that a program like VirtualBox has a nice GUI but
> > virt-manager not.
> >
> Mmm.. so, you're saying that you like VirtualBox's GUI but you don't
> like virt-manager's one, right? In which case, oh, well...
> 
> 
> Dario
> --
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> Senior Software Engineer, Citrix Systems R&D Ltd., Cambridge (UK)
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