Is there any alternative to configure and install many vms and manage them on a remote machine running on ubuntu 12.04 using XEN.we have to configure vm on a remote machine through ssh.can it be done with out GUI??
2 Answers
Sure. There are many ways to do this.
- Clone an existing image (with dd, cp or rsync)
- run the full installation of the DomU in text-mode
- use
xm console
to connect to the text-console
But why do you want to do this without gui?
You can log into your Dom0 with ssh -X
and then start virt-manager
.
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Thanks alot for your suggestion..Based on ur suggestion I tried X11 forwarding(ssh -x) but i am getting a lot of error while doing it as mentioned here can u help me please,, serverfault.com/questions/392616/…– ananthanMay 25, 2012 at 11:43
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@user113505 in that case you will be propably faster with mxrx-answer - go for
virt-install
. I had no clue that virt-manager does not work on Ubuntu...– NilsMay 26, 2012 at 20:17
Yes - you can use virt-install. Check out http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/intrepid/man1/virt-install.1.html - which both explains the command and provides some handy examples.