Re: [Qemu-devel] Adding Save States menu items

[Programmingkid <programmingkidx@gmail.com>]

On Oct 7, 2016, at 5:14 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 09:21:36AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On 06/10/2016 22:26, Eric Blake wrote:
>>>>> Doesn't virt-manager already do this?  What do we gain by duplicating
>>>>> GUI functionality at this level that is already implemented at higher
>>>>> levels?  Not that I'm opposed to the idea, but having a solid reason why
>>>>> it is useful is important.
>>>> 
>>>> Virt-manager is a Linux exclusive. This program doesn't run on Windows or
>>>> Mac OS.
>>> 
>>> Not true. I've seen it ported to Windows, and I'm sure Cole would
>>> welcome a port to Mac.
>> 
>> I don't think that included a port of libvirtd, so you'd still need a
>> Linux system to run the VMs on.
> 
> I would expect libvirtd to pretty much "just work" for the most part.
> Any part of libvirt which depends on Linux specific APIs has conditional
> compilation, or portability layers. OS-X is BSD underneath so majority
> of functionality will trivially work - unlike windows where making libvirtd
> work is very hard due to missing fork/exec paradigm. There's likely to be
> gremlins hiding in the libvirt QEMU driver just because 99% of all work is
> done in Linux, but we'd be more than happy with patches to fix any OS-X
> portability problems.

I have actually tried to port Virt-manager and libvirt to Mac OS X. It does
anything but work. Sorry to have to say this but it was a nightmare trying
to make Virt-manager run. The number of dependencies involved makes installing
QEMU from scratch look easy. Virt-manager is a long ways off from running in
Mac OS X.