From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G4xpN-0001ii-8W for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 06:38:21 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G4xpM-0001iR-LS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 06:38:20 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G4xpM-0001iO-JS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 06:38:20 -0400 Received: from [66.187.233.31] (helo=mx1.redhat.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G4xqQ-0001q6-Pk for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 06:39:26 -0400 Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:38:18 +0100 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: QEMU GUI-Frontend based on Libvert API Message-ID: <20060724103818.GA1875@redhat.com> References: <44C11ED6.3090006@opensourcedemo.com> <20060723113929.GB4412@redhat.com> <44C394A6.4070309@opensourcedemo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44C394A6.4070309@opensourcedemo.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: Evan Paul Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 11:24:22AM -0400, Evan Paul wrote: > Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > >I'd actually go so far as to say - if you added support for QEMU in libvirt > >the 'virt-manager' GUI would 'just work' without need for any further > >coding. > >This is one of the major points of libvirt - you can have multiple backends > >for different virtualization technologies, but your end user applications > >never have to really care (much) about the differences since they are > >presented a consistent API. The only real differences will be in the range > >of virtual hardware devices exposed by each backend & what config options > >they allow. > > Dan, I have this question regarding virt-manager: Does it currently > support actually creating VM. I see features where it provides the > ability to configure stuff but saw nothing about creating VM. That is the main capability under development at this time. I expect it to be in the next release in 3-4 weeks time. > Also, does virt-manager have support to actually install/update a > particular VMM like XEN or QEMU (when support is avaialble) from the GUI > interface itself. If not, that would be a good feature where users can > download a given file within the GUI and some script would auto install > and set it up. Installation of the VMM itself is not a job that is applicable to this application. There are already perfectly good applications for installing software on Linux - RPM, Debian PKG, etc. By virtue of having the virt-manager application installed, packaging dependancies will already have pulled in Xen / QEMU. Windows of course is a completely different scenario, but I know there are plenty of packaging tools for dealing with this on Windows, although I've not used them myself. 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 -=|