virt-manager vs cli

[vrms]

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
>

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