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Cole Robinson
Personal blog · blog.wikichoon.comprogrammingsystems
Cole Robinson's personal blog at blog.wikichoon.com covers programming and systems. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Virt-manager is deprecated in RHEL (but only RHEL)”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on libvirt, QEMU/KVM and virtual machine setup. The two comments discuss cockpit-machines and cloud-init and cite the topic, but do not judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Virt-manager is deprecated in RHEL (but only RHEL)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-29
What Hacker News says?
We're currently migrating from VMware to libvirt, we discovered the cockpit project and cockpit-machines to manage VMs: https://cockpit-project.org/ cockpit-machines is available in a recent version in debian backports, installing it is trivial, no configuration, https://hostname:9090/ and just works. RedHat announced that cockpit will be the long term successor of virt-manager: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/managi…
Comment linking /2020/06/virt-manager-deprecated-in-rhel.html
on “Libvirt – The Unsung Hero of Cloud Computing (2013)”Submitted Virt-manager is deprecated in RHEL (but only RHEL) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI was playing around with this a while ago, using cloud-init and virt-install. But I found it to be quite cumbersome if you don't have some kind of metadata service that can provide cloud-init with the user-data, ie. not using the nocloud provider. I started looking at this mock EC2 metadata service, but never did anything with it: https://github.com/sjjf/md_server Ninja-edit: It seems like virt-install rencently ab…
Comment linking /2020/09/virt-install-cloud-init.html
on “Linux Hypervisor Setup (Libvirt/QEMU/KVM)”