[LUNA] Virtual Machines

[Michael W. Hall]

Thanks for the input.  I will have to check that out.  I would like to
convince people I work with we need this.  However, from past experience
I would say that is slim to none.  I would like to keep our development
VMs the same for everyone and be able to manage them.

On Sun, 2013-12-15 at 18:12 +0000, Bob Nance wrote:
> 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!).
>