Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU GUI

[Joe Lee <joelee724@gmail.com>]

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?
In what OS platform will virt-manager run under (Windows, Linux, OS-X) - 
Essentially, how cross-platform is it?
-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.
>