[LUNA] Virtual Machines

[Bob Nance]

This is what VCenter does for you. It presents a list of configured VMs,
gives you a central place to manage them and lets you start and stop them,
as needed. It will do this across multiple VM hosts, as well.

With a limited number of running VMs on a single host, you can use the SMB
version of VCenter. If you want to control 4 or more hosts' inventories
and launch more than 4 guests on a host, you need to have the
higher-priced enterprise-licensed version.

If you want to do this for free, look at Convirt and openqrm. I have not
used these and make no claims. I just know that they do some of the
management and have a free version available. Red Hat is in the business
of virtualization, they should have a tool, too, that, with any luck, will
be available in a Red Hat-released open source version for the many Red
Hat clones (Fedora, CentOS, etc.). Their paid tool is virt-manager (catchy
nameŠ NOT!).

-- 
 Bob Nance

 Novation Systems
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On 12/15/13 12:01 PM, "Michael W. Hall" <hallmw at att.net> wrote:

>I have a question.  We use VMs at work for our development.  Over the
>years, I have been trying to find a way to manage our VMs.  Currently we
>just have an external HD that has different VMs on it and you get the
>one that you need for the project you are working on.
>
>I am not sure this is possible, but was wondering if something like the
>following exists.  I would like to have a VM server.  I would like to be
>able to open VMWare and then have a server present me with VM to choose
>from.  These VMs would be configured for the different projects we are
>working. This way every developer has the same VM configuration for each
>project.
>
>If the VM needed something added you would change the VM configuration
>on the server.  This would provide a way to manage the VMs for each
>project.
>
>Presently, the VMs are on each developers workstation and they may not
>have the same configuration.  I have read a little on this, but do not
>really have a good grasp on it.  Is anyone on the list doing this?  Can
>the server serve up the VMs without having to copy it to your
>workstation?    
>
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