Re: KVM usability

Gerd Hoffmann
2010-03-02T14:22:54Z

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.

virt-manager builds on top of libvirt, so you always have the option to
use other tools (virsh command line shell for example) to get something
done which virt-manager doesn't provide a gui for. libvirt can handle
everything Peter asked for without problems. It still sucks though.
The whole point of a GUI is that you do *not* have to go to libvirt.org
to figure how to tweak the virtual machine config xml using "virsh edit
$vmname".

cheers,
Gerd