From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fw4M3-0008Ez-HW for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:47:19 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fw4Lz-0008DT-Cc for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:47:17 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fw4Ly-0008DQ-V8 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:47:14 -0400 Received: from [66.187.233.31] (helo=mx1.redhat.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Fw4Yc-0000F5-0O for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:00:18 -0400 Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 22:47:12 +0100 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU GUI Message-ID: <20060629214712.GI29611@redhat.com> References: <44998BB7.2060402@bellard.org> <3B232C36-6014-4472-BA4C-452ABAB526C9@kberg.ch> <48969.203.185.161.115.1151004763.squirrel@imaps.mandriva.com> <44A30AC3.5060104@gmail.com> <20060629131917.GA29611@redhat.com> <44A44095.8080508@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44A44095.8080508@gmail.com> Reply-To: "Daniel P. Berrange" , qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Joe Lee Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 05:05:25PM -0400, Joe Lee wrote: > Daniel, thanks for your info and comments below. I really like the > concept and work being done with virt-manager using the libvirt API. > Question: > Is the virt-manager project run by Redhat or yourself? At the moment its just me working on it - I only put up those web pages a couple of days ago so there isn't anyone else involved. The project was initiated by Red Hat, but as with all our projects we welcome involvement / contribution / feedback from any community members. > In what OS platform will virt-manager run under (Windows, Linux, OS-X) - > Essentially, how cross-platform is it? My primary target at this time is Linux. The application is written in Python with libvirt and GTK / PyGTK being primary dependancies. All the GTK stuff is portable to Windows, and libvirt should be portable too. I'm not sure what GTK OS-X support is like though. So although I'm not testing it on anything other than Linux, it should be possible to make it portable if there were demand. I honestly couldn't estimate the work to port it though, not having any experiance developing for Windows / OS-X Regards, Dan. > -joe > > Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > >On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 07:03:31PM -0400, Joe Lee wrote: > > > >>>I would be interested in a GUI that is not specific to QEMU. e.g. Xen/VT, > >>>Basilisk II, SheepShaver, etc. ;-) > >>> > >>Gwenole, can you elaborate more on your comments above. Are your > >>comments referring to having a GUI that can both run and manage several > >>virtualization product (QEMU, XEN, etc) from one central GUI interface? > >>If so, I had a similar thought on this BUT was not sure how possible > >>this was. Would like to hear more on what your thoughts are on this. > >>Anyone else thought and comments to this would be appreciated! > >> > > > >Its entirely feasible if you have a management API to use which supports > >the different virtualization backends. That would allow the GUI to be > >written to a single API, and yet control multiple systems like QEMU, Xen, > >etc. The libvirt project aims to provide such a backend API, currently > >supporting Xen, and a 'mock hypervisor' backend for testing purposes, and > >it would be very desirable to have backends to drive QEMU & VMWare systems. > >While the GUI would no doubt still have some differences in the area of > >hardware /device configuration the bulk of it could be shared by using > >the generic libvirt backend. I've got an early prototype of a Python/GTK > >based GUI for managing VMs via libvirt: > > > > http://people.redhat.com/berrange/virt-manager/ > > > >So if anyone's interested in trying to put together a QEMU backend for > >libvirt the project site is http://libvirt.org/ > > > >Regards, > >Dan. > > -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=|