The recommendation going forward is to use the web server based (but still self contained, so you don’t have to spin your own web server) Cockpit to manage your VMs:
We just lost a GUI hero to libvirt and QEMU today.
well that sucks, I guess it will fall to community support to keep it running.
on the other hand virt-manager has many issues, and is starting to show it’s age. It’s very slow over a network, so maybe it’s time to retire it.
Yeah, but at least it doesn’t require a browser to manage. It’s a GTK program.
The next best thing is if someone forks and ports it to QT.
Ugh, that’s annoying.
I guess I’ll have to get better with virsh.
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Even so, libvirt/QEMU has no good non-browser based GUI frontend now.
Yeah, I suppose it is a niche thing though.
virtualbox is more normie-friendly anyways, due to the gpu options.
To clarify, this deprecation/EOL is for RedHat ONLY. It does not affect the upstream virt-manager project.
The upstream maintainer’s statement: https://blog.wikichoon.com/2020/06/virt-manager-deprecated-in-rhel.html
Upstream source with commits as of the day this was posted: https://github.com/virt-manager/virt-manager
I know this is a necro, I just wanted to make sure that people know that virt-manager is not going away everywhere, but only in RedHat; since there has been some confusion.
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