Manage Your Virtual Machines With Cockpit

This program is why I finally switched to Linux. I was able to use Cockpit to set up my raid 6 array and my Samba share. I am on Arco Linux full time now.

@distrotube what is your current experience with cockpit-machine for VMs after a couple years?

can I touch your head? Look smooth

I tried removing the Kernel Dump application as I thought it wasn't necessary and once I clicked Remove it uninstalled the whole Cockpit panel lmao.

i use cockpit to manage my nextcloud and plex server

LOL VMs are not the main point. It's modular

Have you ever successfully created a VM through cockpit-machines interface? Every time I try it, when I finish SO installation e reboot, got message stating virtual HD is not bootable.

I never hear of paru...

can someone help to assign a public ip over there to a vm

Dear Thanks for the great explanation!

How can I manage Different Physical Hypervisors(Qemu/KVM)s from a single console ?
I keep loggin in to the different physical Qemu/KVM to manage the VMs on it now and it is difficult, since we do have many Physical Hypervisiors (Qemu/KVM)

Thank you very much for the video
Just to add, virt-manager is not deprecated, you can still pull from the original git repo and it's regulary updated

Cant login have plasma do I need to add to firewall use ufw?

I'm trying to use it instead of Virtualbox.
There's something doesn't work ("access denied"), it's quite cumbersome.

how to enable uefi bios in cockpit? do i ha e to setup it before starting the machine?

Cockpit can just manage raw machines, servers or desktops. You could use cockpit to manage a house full of systems from one seat. I believe it might run across distros. Thanks for a great video.

One thing if anyone sees this post, have they changed the policy for the one that logs in?
I'm not part of a libvirt group yet I could login fine.

also, as I never used any virtual machine software on this machine, not virtmanger as DT therefore I needed more packages: qemu, virt-install

also seems some more packs...

this is strange, for a deprecated project you still seem to be using virt-manager, also on their github there is no indication of deprecated ??

TempleOS?! Please, tell me that was a joke! :O

Something about NVIDIA released virtual upgrade for gpus
it wasnt really an upgrade they blocked GTX cards for ages now its availble linux virtual machines .
EDIT - Look up - * Dummie plugs hdmi- 4k increase GPU by 30%
used on Bitcoin machines eg- 6x rtx 3060s 1 IS plug in Monitor the others all Dummie plugs = +30% hashing 💯

He was sitting in the cockpit for a few days and at the end he just had to eject...

That temple os joke 😂

The intro might be a bit confusing for people who are new to KVM, because virt-manager is very well able to connect to remote hosts. It does so pretty well too, i.e. by supporting SSH tunnels.

I use virt-manager all the time to manage local and several dozen remote VMs running on various servers. I manage my MAAS nodes with virt-manager that sit inside a local container and a remote MAAS region controller, it works great, and secure, and I can do that without the need to install, load and use a web browser. Cheap web interfaces to these tools are really considered legacy at this point. Also look into Boxes, a GNOME project that replaces virt-manager.

If i am right then the Cockpit is the Fedora Server UI you can get out of the box. But to extend the basic functionality you need to install modules. You can get module to manage containers as well. And some other modules. I see some similarity to Webmin/Virtualmin project. Also i think there is something similar for Ubuntu servers. I believe once they will get the architecture right, there will be standard API to develop your own modules, let's say to manage specific software like Bind, DHCP, PXE, etc, etc. Just a speculation.

Real chads use Proxmox.

This is bloat and the main point of Cockpit is not even managing VMs... Real people just use virsh.

Nice video DT, actually i didn't now that Red Hat is the dev. Funny thing it's embedded on openmediavault as a special tool along with portainer and other things and it actually works just fine :)

Why is your CPU running at 80C? or is that F? If its C id look into a better cooler, or at least clean out some dust. Wouldnt wanna run such a expensive cpu at those temps at any time really :)

Why is Facebook all over the licensing for Cockpit?

Overkill, DT! Cockpit is an enterprise level virtual management tool and your using it for local user use...Such Bloat! Luke Smith would not approve! You might as well advise people to kill houseflys with shotguns...lol.

Yes, you really should install the best OS ever, the one you mention in the end

I still prefer virt-manager, probably sooner than later someone will make an electron app with this ^^

Cockpit, packagekit and all the usual Red Hat systemd services...bloat, bloat, bloat!!!

Qemu(kvm) / virt-manager isn't faster for desktop, only stated to be for servers, VirtualBox is more optimized for that(desktop), which I also found, and clearly saw a diff on lower powered(2gb 2cores) vms. Virtualbox has a complete cli interface which has more options than the gui, btw, so nicely scriptable no-matter requirements, hence I personally stick to that, though would prefer the more lightweight non-gui and kernel backed qemu/kvm, but I tried everything to make qemu comparable, but failed, I.e paravirtualized disk and network and propper drivers etc.

I'm glad to see, Cockpit has evolved a great deal since i played with it last time. It lacked a great deal back then IMO. Two years ago.

Danke, Derek!

which linux distribution are you using

I use cockpit to manage my VMs, Containers, and two physical servers.
Because it's a server management interface. Not a Virtual Machine Managment suite.

So, they are adding features to the 'old' cockpit which I used to manage Headless Fedora servers. Which was a cool tool. I think you can install it on Ubuntu Server too...

Fun fact: I almost distro hopped to Arch. (Un)fortunately, sudo worked (i was going to reset my main hdd due to the so files not being linked right). Also, i was considering using virt manager for testing my distro, but Im glad you told us that its deprecated beforehand. Nevertheless, I'll still use it

Edit: Just got manjaro. Never going back.

If you really want something like that for the purpose of running vms you should take a look at proxmox

Huh huh huh huh, he said cock.

thnx

The Cockpit main package is for remote management of physical servers. They have the extra -machines and -containers in case you don't use those remote machines as a hypervisor or a container host. Modularity is flexibility at the expense of ease of use

Love me some cockpit!

You know what wasn't a meme operating system? Solaris. Solaris was an amazing variant on our Unixes.

slow down Please!!!

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