• CentOS/Fedora/Debian/Ubuntu における virt-manager/kvm のUI・機能比較

H/W spec

• hp ProBook 6550b
• Intel Core i7 Q720
• 4GB DDR3
• virtualized with VMware Workstation 8

  numvcpus = "4"
  cpuid.coresPerSocket = "2"
  vcpu.hotadd = "FALSE"
  vhv.enable = "TRUE"
  

setup OS

• X window system は導入しない
• installerからは、sshd以外のパッケージは導入しない

centos 6

• # yum groupinfo

  Group: Virtualization
   Description: Provides an environment for hosting virtualized guests.
   Mandatory Packages:
     qemu-kvm
   Optional Packages:
     qemu-guest-agent
     qemu-kvm-tools
  

  Group: Virtualization Client
   Description: Clients for installing and managing virtualization instances.
   Mandatory Packages:
     python-virtinst
     virt-manager
     virt-viewer
   Default Packages:
     virt-top
  

  Group: Virtualization Platform
   Description: Provides an interface for accessing and controlling virtualized guests and containers.
   Mandatory Packages:
     libvirt
     libvirt-client
     virt-who
   Optional Packages:
     fence-virtd-libvirt
     fence-virtd-multicast
     fence-virtd-serial
     libvirt-cim
     libvirt-java
     libvirt-qmf
     libvirt-snmp
     perl-Sys-Virt
  

  Group: Virtualization Tools
   Description: Tools for offline virtual image management.
   Default Packages:
     libguestfs
   Optional Packages:
     libguestfs-java
     libguestfs-tools
     virt-v2v
  

• # yum groupinstall "Virtualization" "Virtualization Client" "Virtualization Platform" "Virtualization Tools"

  Install     156 Package(s)
  
  Total download size: 38 M
  Installed size: 134 M
  

• # yum install xorg-x11-xauth
  • x11forwardingに必要
• # yum install vlgothic-fonts
  • 文字化けを直す
    

fedora 17

• # yum groupinfo "Virtualization Client"

  Group: Virtualization Client
   Description: These packages provide a virtualization environment.
   Mandatory Packages:
     python-virtinst
   Default Packages:
     libvirt
     qemu-kvm
     virt-manager
     virt-viewer
   Optional Packages:
     guestfish
     guestfs-browser
     libguestfs-tools
     python-libguestfs
     virt-top
  

• # yum groupinstall "Virtualization Client"

  Install  5 Packages (+163 Dependent packages)
  
  Total download size: 58 M
  Installed size: 224 M
  

• # yum install xauth
  • -> xorg-x11-xauth
• # yum install vlgothic-fonts

Ubuntu 10.04 / 12.04

• $ sudo aptitude install qemu-kvm libvirt-bin virt-manager bridge-utils

  0 packages upgraded, 197 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  Need to get 49.9 MB of archives. After unpacking 186 MB will be used.
  

Debian 6

• # aptitude install qemu-kvm libvirt-bin virt-manager bridge-utils

  0 packages upgraded, 225 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  Need to get 118 MB of archives. After unpacking 332 MB will be used.
  

Debian testing

• # aptitude install qemu-kvm libvirt-bin virt-manager bridge-utils

  0 packages upgraded, 286 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  Need to get 190 MB of archives. After unpacking 548 MB will be used.
  

Debian 6 with wheezy packages

• /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backports.list

  deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main
  

• # aptitude install -t squeeze-backports linux-image-amd64

• see also wiki:TipAndDoc/Linux/Debian#usenonstablepackage
  • /etc/apt/sources.list.d/wheezy.list

    deb http://ftp.tsukuba.wide.ad.jp/debian/ wheezy main
    deb-src http://ftp.tsukuba.wide.ad.jp/debian/ wheezy main
    
    deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main
    deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main
    

  • /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/stable

    APT::Default-release "stable";
    

  • /etc/apt/preferences.d/stable

    Package: *
    Pin: release a=stable
    Pin-Priority: 700
    
    Package: *
    Pin: release a=testing
    Pin-Priority: 650
    
    Package: *
    Pin: release a=unstable
    Pin-Priority: 600
    

• # aptitude install -t wheezy qemu-kvm libvirt-bin virt-manager libtext-charwidth-perl libuuid-perl liblocale-gettext-perl udev libtext-iconv-perl

  35 packages upgraded, 315 newly installed, 1 to remove and 123 not upgraded.
  Need to get 229 MB of archives. After unpacking 611 MB will be used.