<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Thanks Julian, I'm in Mildura in VIC.<br><br></div>I was hoping for a "pure" web-based client console solution, not something like the VMware desktop client.<br><br></div>Anyway,
I'm not going to get too hung up on this. Even if we go VMware because
it "just works" and everyone's happy with it, we'll still do plenty of
CentOS/Fedora.<br><br></div>There is also a case to be made that our
students are much more likely to encounter VMware in a corporate
environment that KVM. And Windows. And iPads. Yawn.<br><br></div>Thanks</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 11:22 AM, Julian De Marchi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:julian@jdcomputers.com.au" target="_blank">julian@jdcomputers.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hey Michael,<span class=""><br>
<br>
> I am teaching IT subjects in TAFE (a kind of post-secondary technical<br>
> college) in Australia.<br>
<br></span>
Great news for this tech to be in tafe. I remember my time at Logan tafe got me into linux.<span class=""><br>
<br>
<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
We are currently looking for a virtualisation platform that will allow<br>
students to install and manage VMs via web interface.<br>
<br>
VMware is being proposed but I am trying to get KVM and the RedHat<br>
ecosystem in the lab as much as possible.<br>
<br>
I have reasonable experience with running virt manager on CentOS 7, but<br>
oVirt is new. I have it installed and running OK but am not sure how to<br>
proceed with configuration.<br>
<br>
I basically want to run a single physical server which will be the KVM<br>
host, the ISO and data store, and the home of oVirt engine ... in other<br>
words a complete oVirt-managed KVM virtualisation platform running on one<br>
physical machine (32GB RAM). It will only ever need to run a handful of VMs<br>
with little or no real data or load. Is this possible/feasible?<br>
<br>
If possible/feasible, where should oVirt engine go ... on the host itself,<br>
or into a VM guest?<br>
</blockquote>
<br></span>
If it was me, I would do the engine install on the metal host itself. Will be a lot easier for you, as long as you _know_ you will not be adding more metal nodes to the oVirt setup.<br>
<br>
I would also be looking into the "VM Pool" feature for your student. This will give you a pool of VMs which after use can be reset to a default configuration.<span class=""><br>
<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
The web interface is what is making oVirt an attractive option at this<br>
stage, as students will be working from Windows clients on a corporate<br>
network. Do VM GUI display well in the browser?<br>
</blockquote>
<br></span>
I have no experience using oVirt from Windows, but if there is a splice client available I see no reason why it shouldn't work.<br>
<br>
If you're local to QLD, I am more then happy to help in person.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
<br>
--julian</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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