On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 11:33:00AM -0400, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm on Fedora 14 and I'm totally new to libvirt. I have experience with > vSphere on servers and VirtualBox on the desktop. I'm looking forward > to KVM but my desktop CPU doesn't have the virtualization extensions so > I can't play with KVM at the moment. > However, I would like to get some hands-on experience with the > management tools (command line virsh and the GUI virt-manager). > > Can I really use these mgmt tools with VirtualBox as the back-end > virtualization engine? That is, can I totally control my VirtualBox VMs > (with libvirt) without needing to use the VirtualBox GUI at all?
In theory you could use a virtualbox URL to control virtualbox from libvirt / virt-manager: http://libvirt.org/drvvbox.html In practice this is not very well tested. You might find it better to try out virtualization using software emulation (qemu). qemu and KVM share the same libvirt driver so the experience will be essentially the same. It's slow, but not unusably so. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora _______________________________________________ virt mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt
