Re: [Qemu-devel] Mount image file feature

[Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>]

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On 08/29/2015 01:34 PM, Max Reitz wrote:

>>> Erm, well, I think I won't reply to that other than *cough* virt-manager
>>> *cough*.
>>
>> Linux exclusive probably.
> 
> Your point?
> 
> You said applications on Linux are generally more difficult to use than
> comparable applications on OS X, by design. I said "Well, there's
> virt-manager." You say it's available only on Linux. So how does that
> make qemu on Linux more difficult to use than on OS X?

virt-manager is designed to be cross-platform compatible, and it IS
ported to Windows. If the port to Mac OS doesn't already work out of the
box, then I'm sure the virt-manager community would love patches.  And
THAT is the gui app of choice for dealing with VMs in a cross-platform
manager, since virt-manager IS a gui.  But this is not the virt-manager
mailing list.  Here, in the lower-level qemu, we focus on providing the
machine-friendly knobs, so that higher-level apps like libvirt, and on
top of that virt-manager, can expose a nice gui that uses those knobs.

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org


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