Re: KVM usability

Daniel P. Berrange
2010-03-02T14:37:48Z

On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 03:22:07PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On 03/02/10 14:37, Nikolai K. Bochev wrote:
> >I don't see where this argument is leading to. So far there are
> >arguments that qemu/kvm sucks as a desktop virtualization, now
> >suddenly the gui tools are shitty and everything should be done cli ,
> >because there's no man pages for virt-manager. Explain.
>
> Lets face it: virt-manager has a big bunch of problems. For starters
> there is no (gui) way to create a virtual machine other than installing
> one from a iso image or via pxe. So if you downloaded a disk image and
> want to boot it -> no cookie for you. Likewise if you have a bunch of
> already installed guests and want to migrate from $othertool to
> virt-manager you can't do that easily.

The ability to import existing KVM disk images is available in the
latest release of virt-manager, targetted for Fedora 13. Migrating
from another tool like VMWare is a much harder than just importing
the disk image, since you have to update the drivers inside the guest,
likely reconfigure several config files, etc, etc. There is work on
a full v2v tool to automate this task, for both Linux & Windows guests.

Regards,
Daniel
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