CentOS - Jan 2018 - best centos server setup for graphics intensive kvm vms?

Hallo list

I've been running fedora for donks as my production laptop os, but now
I want to set up one of those old laptops to run as a home server
running a number of home type vm appliances.  I don't want to risk
having to tear down and rebuild the setup every 6 months to a year -
so, figure centos is my best canditate to run as a stable server.

The sort of home type vms I envisage running include:
LibreELEC https://libreelec.tv/
Vortexbox https://wiki.vortexbox.org/available_images
ownCloud https://owncloud.org/download/#owncloud-server-appliance
freeSwitch https://freeswitch.org/pages/vm.html
Etc...

Without wanting to start a very competative discussion - what would be
a suggested minimal centos 7 install to provide such a server?

My main area of confusion is whether I need a gui on the server for kodi?

Many thanks for any answers to this wildly open ended question!

M
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Morgan Read
E mstuff at read.org.nz

You'd need to run virt-manager GUI somehow to manage the VMs. If you run
Fedora already on another machine then you can just yum install it and use it
from there.

You might run into a problem though with your Libreelec VM as you'd need to
enable GPU passthrough for it and for that you need Intel VT-d or AMD-Vi enabled
in the BIOS. If your laptop is old it may not have that feature.

Owncloud has been obsoleted by Nextcloud btw.

hth

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Nux!
www.nux.ro

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Morgan Read" <mstuff at read.org.nz>
> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org>
> Sent: Sunday, 21 January, 2018 18:59:49
> Subject: [CentOS] best centos server setup for graphics intensive kvm vms?
> Hallo list
> 
> I've been running fedora for donks as my production laptop os, but now
> I want to set up one of those old laptops to run as a home server
> running a number of home type vm appliances.  I don't want to risk
> having to tear down and rebuild the setup every 6 months to a year -
> so, figure centos is my best canditate to run as a stable server.
> 
> The sort of home type vms I envisage running include:
> LibreELEC https://libreelec.tv/
> Vortexbox https://wiki.vortexbox.org/available_images
> ownCloud https://owncloud.org/download/#owncloud-server-appliance
> freeSwitch https://freeswitch.org/pages/vm.html
> Etc...
> 
> Without wanting to start a very competative discussion - what would be
> a suggested minimal centos 7 install to provide such a server?
> 
> My main area of confusion is whether I need a gui on the server for kodi?
> 
> Many thanks for any answers to this wildly open ended question!
> 
> M
> --
> Morgan Read
> E mstuff at read.org.nz
> _______________________________________________
> CentOS mailing list
> CentOS at centos.org
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Thanks Nux for the follow up!

On 22/01/18 08:54, Nux! wrote:
> You'd need to run virt-manager GUI somehow to manage the VMs. If you
run Fedora already on another machine then you can just yum install it and use
it from there.
That's what I figured - I already run an XP and W7 virt machines as well 
as sometimes RemixOS just for fun on my everyday machine and thought I 
could remote control.
> You might run into a problem though with your Libreelec VM as you'd
need to enable GPU passthrough for it and for that you need Intel VT-d or AMD-Vi
enabled in the BIOS. If your laptop is old it may not have that feature.I
wondered about that - the laptop is VT-x, but not VT-d.  But, as I run
the above GUI machines on my laptop without VT-d, then shouldn't I be 
able to run Libreelec?  Or, is it that I will just need the server/host 
setup with a gui?  And, if that's the case, then perhaps I run Libreelec 
on the server/host and not as a VM and the rest as VM?
> Owncloud has been obsoleted by Nextcloud btw.
Can't keep up - getting old...

Many thanks
Morgan.