thx for this. Good to know there is no point in searching for certain bells and whistles in the virt-manager
On 22.09.20 10:13, Erik Skultety wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 06:28:27AM +0200, vrms wrote: >> I got the impression that the virt-manager does not provide all >> functionality towards managing kvm machines then the virsh cli tool does >> (i.e. towards deleting networks). Is that correct? >> >> if so, is there any GUI that provides complete access to kvm/qemu/libvirt? > Feature-wise, no, virt-manager doesn't expose every single knob libvirt > supports and there's a very good reason for that - can you imagine how > exhausting, discouraging and potentially very confusing it would be for > regular > users to crunch through all the settings? Virt-manager aims at desktop > virtualization where it's unlikely that users will need some advanced tunning > features libvirt supports. However, if you wish to do so anyway, virt-manager > does have an XML editor where you can add the all the advanced settings you > care about. > Take the AMD Secure Virtualization feature for example. It would be great if > virt-manager supported it, but the current state of the technology doesn't > allow us to fully automate the decision process, IOW user intervention > is still required in terms of configuration, so you can't just select > 'yes - I want AMD SEV' + the specific settings were overall deemed very > complex > and thus unfit for virt-manager's target audience. > > If you want GUI that comes the closest in terms of exposing all libvirt > features, you may want to look at oVirt, but beware that running oVirt in a > single-node setup for desktop virtualization is an overkill. Then there's > cockpit (a web interface manager) which is supposed to replace virt-manager in > the future, but IIRC it's about on the same level in terms of libvirt feature > parity as virt-manager, in some areas the former can do more in others less > than the latter, but cockpit is the new shiny thing, so it's being developed > rapidly. > > Regards, > Erik >
