Running windows programs under Linux

[Tom H]

On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> At Sun, 31 Aug 2014 09:50:06 -0400 "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>
>> One thing though: "virsh, virt-manager, and the various support
>> libraries and daemons" aren't needed, strictly speaking but they're
>> nice to have.
>
> Well you need *something* to talk to the hypervisor in order to manage the VMs
> :-), and "virsh, virt-manager, and the various support libraries and daemons"
> are the standard / typical bits and pieces one would install on the host
> system to provide the tools needed to talk to the hypervisor and to manage the
> VMs and the virtual network(s), etc.

libvirt and co basically wrap around qemu. So you can use plain qemu,
as I do on my laptop and at some of my moonlighting jobs. At my
$dayjob on the other hand, we use the libvirt infrastructure
especially since we use RHEL and it's the standard RHEL way of
managing VMs.