# management tool for kvm virtualization

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/management-tool-for-kvm-virtualization/28750>\
**Category:** SLES Virtualization\
**Created:** [October 7, 2016, 6:25pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/management-tool-for-kvm-virtualization/28750 "2016-10-07T18:25:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![berndgsflinux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6a8cbe/32.png) [@berndgsflinux](https://forums.suse.com/u/berndgsflinux)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2016, 6:25pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/management-tool-for-kvm-virtualization/28750/1 "2016-10-07T18:25:49Z")

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Hi,

the kvm website proposes a lot of management tools for kvm virtualization: [http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Management\_Tools](http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Management_Tools)

I will have two hosts with SLES 11 SP4 and between 10 and 15 guests of different flavor. I’d like to have live migration but not a HA solution.  
The webpage shows a bunch o tools i don’t know. I got a recommendation for ovirt, but this seems to be strong related to RedHat/Fedora.  
I’d prefer a tool which relies on libvirt and does not run the vm’s itself (liko ovirt it does).  
I like web-based tools. It should not be too complicated because, after establishing the virtualization solution, i will leave and two people have to care about who are  
no sysadmins.

Has anyone experience with one of these and can recommend s.th. ?

Thanks.

Bernd

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**Author:** ![ab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d2c977/32.png) [@ab1](https://forums.suse.com/u/ab1)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2016, 8:07pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/management-tool-for-kvm-virtualization/28750/2 "2016-10-07T20:07:34Z")

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On 10/07/2016 09:34 AM, berndgsflinux wrote:[color=blue]

> the kvm website proposes a lot of management tools for kvm  
> virtualization: [http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Management\_Tools](http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Management_Tools)
> 
> I will have two hosts with SLES 11 SP4 and between 10 and 15 guests of  
> different flavor. I’d like to have live migration but not a HA  
> solution.  
> The webpage shows a bunch o tools i don’t know. I got a recommendation  
> for ovirt, but this seems to be strong related to RedHat/Fedora.  
> I’d prefer a tool which relies on libvirt and does not run the vm’s  
> itself (liko ovirt it does).  
> I like web-based tools. It should not be too complicated because, after  
> establishing the virtualization solution, i will leave and two people  
> have to care about who are  
> no sysadmins.
> 
> Has anyone experience with one of these and can recommend s.th. ?[/color]

I use virt-manager exclusively when not using SUSE OpenStack Cloud (SOC)  
which is a much bigger, but also much better, implementation of everything  
since it provides a lot of the features you may want, including a web UI  
to manage a lot of things. With just two hosts it would probably be  
overkill, but the trainings are done on a single big VM host, or maybe two  
or three, just for demo purposes. virt-manager can connect to remote  
hosts and manage them as well as local ones, so while not web-based it  
does work across many systems well.

I did not think that oVirt actually ran the VMs; are you sure it does?  
Since it indicates it uses KVM, I though otherwise, but I have minimal  
experience there.

Once upon a time I used Convirt (  
[https://www.convirture.com/products\_opensource.php](https://www.convirture.com/products_opensource.php) ) which was pretty  
neat. It’s been a while, but it sounds like what you’re after.

–  
Good luck.

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