Setting up a production KVM server

Hello,

I am trying to setup a KVM server for production, referring to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM and https://help.ubuntu.com/community/JeOSVMBuilder

I simply want to be able to easily create, clone and monitor resources of virtual machines using JEOS (intrepid) All my virtual machines should be accessible from external network, so I need bridge networking for each.

I installed KVM with:

sudo apt-get install kvm libvirt-bin python-vm-builder qemu bridge-utils

Two question:

• why does build-essentials get installed ? I hate having a source compiler on a production server.
• should I use vmbuilder or virt-install as stated in official ubuntu server documentation ?

Regards.

To compile, you need a compiler and what not, hence the build essential packages. That's for question one. Question two, I'll think about it a little. Dedoimedo

Dedoimedo said: To compile, you need a compiler and what not, hence the build essential packages. That's for question one. Question two, I'll think about it a little.

Dedoimedo

Well I dont want to compile anything! That was qemu package that depends of build essentials. But seems it not really needed by kvm

For question 2: if you want to install Hardy or jaunty guests, vm builder. Else, virt-install :) For question 1: good question. Don't know. Can't really remember if it did that on hardy..