Qemu libvirt module

Webmin
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SYSTEM INFORMATION
OS type and version debian 13
Webmin version 2.670

Hello All,

I thought trying to move the 3-4 VMs I have on my laptop to my home server.

So I installed the libvirt environment but I saw there’s no web admin gui.

Instead I found there’s a Cloudmin package, seems from same community, that manage VMs ?

Do you think is it possible to have a simple webmin module to manage one local host with 5-10 VMs not all concurrent power on for CPU/RAM reasons ?

Thanks,
Bye

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Cloudmin is for managing VMs. The upcoming Cloudmin 10 uses libvirt to do so. (Cloudmin 9 uses our own in-house libraries and qemu CLI, as libvirt didn’t exist when Cloudmin started.)

Cloudmin 9 is pretty difficult to install and use on modern OSes, so I’d recommend you wait a few days for the beta of Cloudmin 10, or wait a bit longer for the production release.

There’s a discussion going on here about it: Cloudmin active users survey and discussion

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thanks for the suggestion,

do you think would it be possible in future to have just a small simple webmin module to manage just one localhost and few VMs without the need to install the whole Cloudmin ?

Thanks

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Is this what you are asking for?

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no,

I have just one physical (local) host at home with a couple of VMs for study purposes.
and I was asking if there will be a simple small webmin module to manage them via a web GUI.

no Cloud, no HA, no DR, no Shared Storage

thanks

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Just install the virtualmin module within webmin and use that, or if that is too ‘heavy’ learn to use the webmin modules that are present, this assumes that VM’s = domains. If VM’s mean 2 instances of webmin/virtualmin running why no use the webmin cluster functions after you have setup webmin servers index with your instances. Your post does not make your intentions clear

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sorry maybe I don’t know the correct words,
I have this:

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but I need always to remote desktop or libvirt cli in ssh to manage them.

I was trying to understand if there’s a simple and small module for it ?

thanks

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From what I can see from your screen shot you have some virtual device management already running meaning that virtualmin is installed on device f18 ? If so how do you expect virtualmin to control anything if that device is either paused or turned off. If virtualmin/webmin is installed on f18’s host virtualmin is not abke to managee f18 because it’s not designed to manage virtual machines only virtual servers. As this is a home lab situation I would continue to use the software you are using, please confirm either way

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QEMU/KVM libvirt is installed on localhost (QEMU) top of the root,

I don’t have virtualmin just webmin also installed on localhost (QEMU) top of the root.

f16-f19 are small Linux tests VMs but without webmin/virtualmin/cloudmin.

thanks

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You’re describing Cloudmin (at least, the new one). The previous versions got lost in the weeds, with a quite complex installation and such. That’s being corrected by Cloudmin 10.

Cloudmin Pro will also manage a bunch of host systems and larger scale VM hosting, but Cloudmin GPL 10 will be a simple to install and use way to manage VMs on a single host machine in Webmin.

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Virtualmin does not manage VMs (virtual machines). It manages websites.