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Alternative applications for libvirt/kvm/qemu other than virt-manager (gui)? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I find virt-manager hard to use, and not easily configurable, XML is the easiest but I don't always want to configure my vms in either a command-line or XML directly, is there any graphical alternative to virt-manager that uses the entire or part of the stack?

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[–] DeltaWingDragon 1 points 4 days ago

GNOME Boxes. Much simpler to set up.

It can auto-download operating system ISOs from the internet, but if you already have the ISOs, it works too.

On my machine, virt-manager mysteriously fails, but Boxes works fine.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I've been giving cockpit a try for the last couple weeks.

So far it has been pretty great, especially with the podman plugin.

https://cockpit-project.org/guide/195/feature-virtualmachines.html

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

But virt-manager has a GUI?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I mean if you want a separate server to do your VMs on, there's Proxmox. Or if you use Debian you can install all the Proxmox stuff on it alongside your normal desktop environment. It uses all the KVM/qemu backend and has a good interface that beats the hell out of virt-manager as far as I'm concerned.