virt-manager for Windows
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@scottalanmiller said in virt-manager for Windows:
@travisdh1 said in virt-manager for Windows:
@scottalanmiller said in virt-manager for Windows:
@black3dynamite said in virt-manager for Windows:
Assuming virt-manager is installed on the KVM server.
It would not be, that would not make sense. LOL
That would be different in every way. That's not virt-manager on Windows, that's just remoting into a remote system. If we had a GUI on there, we'd just use MeshCentral.
What's preventing you from using a headless GUI? I was doing that **** in the mid 90s on IRIX, what's changed that it wouldn't work now?
Other than it's a really poor way to do things? What's wrong with wanting a good solution? We have a good solution on Linux, talking over an API. It is very efficient. Doing remote desktops to many machines is 1) ridiculous 2) insanely inefficient 3) a different result - how would you see all those systems in the same GUI?
You need access to 1 instance of virt-manager, which you can then manage any other KVM server on the same network.
I agree that it's not a great solution, but there is no great solution here, only picking which is the least painful way to access the thing. Unless you want to take my snark from earlier seriously and compile virt-manager for Windows yourself.
In short, there is no thing that does what you want. If there was, my home lab would be running KVM instead of XCP-ng.
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@scottalanmiller said in virt-manager for Windows:
@black3dynamite said in virt-manager for Windows:
Assuming virt-manager is installed on the KVM server.
It would not be, that would not make sense. LOL
That would be different in every way. That's not virt-manager on Windows, that's just remoting into a remote system. If we had a GUI on there, we'd just use MeshCentral.
What? You don't need a GUI to use X11 Forwarding. You installing virt-manager, not a windows manager or desktop environment.
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@black3dynamite said in virt-manager for Windows:
What? You don't need a GUI to use X11 Forwarding. You installing virt-manager, not a windows manager or desktop environment.
You don't need all of the GUI, but you need the back end of it. It's a remote view that you are transmitting. Like RDP to an RDS server.
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You can actually install it using the WSL and/or Cygwin, I posted some screenshots I think on 2017, it didn't all work back then so it might be worth it to revisit it and test it out
WSL
CYGWIN
Edit: heres the post back then https://mangolassi.it/post/359372
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@Romo that might be just the solution that @scottalanmiller would have to use if he requires this.
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Oh, that gets me thinking, I bet the Ubuntu layer would solve this. Brilliant.
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I have Virt-Manager running on Windows through Cygwin/X. It works great once you set up the SSH key authentication.
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Here's a link to some very rudimentary documentation I was working on to make it work.
https://stack.wellston.biz/books/configuring-virt-manager-to-run-on-windows
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I got it working, directions forthcoming but it is SO easy.
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@DustinB3403 obvious. That’s exactly what Xming+virt-manager provides.
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@scottalanmiller you don’t want a GUI on the virtualization host, ever. Just spin a VM with virt-manager and launch it on your local machine with xming or one of the other solutions in the other comments.
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@Francesco-Provino said in virt-manager for Windows:
@scottalanmiller you don’t want a GUI on the virtualization host, ever. Just spin a VM with virt-manager and launch it on your local machine with xming or one of the other solutions in the other comments.
He’s not doing it on the host. That is Windows 10, obviously not the KVM host.
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@Francesco-Provino said in virt-manager for Windows:
@DustinB3403 obvious. That’s exactly what Xming+virt-manager provides.
It does, but only the way that I did it. If I'm using virt-manager on Linux, and Xming on Windows, I get a cumbersome mess. But if I get virt-manager installed on Windows then I get centralized management through virt-manager.
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@Francesco-Provino said in virt-manager for Windows:
@scottalanmiller you don’t want a GUI on the virtualization host, ever. Just spin a VM with virt-manager and launch it on your local machine with xming or one of the other solutions in the other comments.
Right, bypassing Windows can be an option, but it's a crappy one. But I got it working directly on Windows, so no need for a heavy VM for one app.
