From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59815) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZVwq8-00047L-0o for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 30 Aug 2015 03:15:44 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZVwq4-00027T-RN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 30 Aug 2015 03:15:43 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-x232.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c05::232]:34063) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZVwq4-00027M-IH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 30 Aug 2015 03:15:40 -0400 Received: by wizs10 with SMTP id s10so2228370wiz.1 for ; Sun, 30 Aug 2015 00:15:38 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Paolo Bonzini References: <55E1D289.9000202@redhat.com> <55E1E03A.6060002@redhat.com> <1DBD1CD3-3C0E-4AC6-97EB-FC51F09EF5F8@gmail.com> <55E1F385.2040409@redhat.com> <94F6A4AC-9CB6-41A0-BD31-1E680C0700C0@gmail.com> <55E2093F.3050600@redhat.com> <55E23BD9.1000908@redhat.com> <75468ADD-26CF-466A-A467-00E20E51DFB5@gmail.com> From: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <55E2AD9D.5040507@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 09:15:41 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <75468ADD-26CF-466A-A467-00E20E51DFB5@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Mount image file feature List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Programmingkid , Eric Blake Cc: Peter Maydell , qemu-devel qemu-devel , Max Reitz On 30/08/2015 02:02, Programmingkid wrote: >> > virt-manager is designed to be cross-platform compatible, and it IS >> > ported to Windows. If the port to Mac OS doesn't already work out of the >> > box, then I'm sure the virt-manager community would love patches. And >> > THAT is the gui app of choice for dealing with VMs in a cross-platform >> > manager, since virt-manager IS a gui. But this is not the virt-manager >> > mailing list. Here, in the lower-level qemu, we focus on providing the >> > machine-friendly knobs, so that higher-level apps like libvirt, and on >> > top of that virt-manager, can expose a nice gui that uses those knobs. > I just tried using Virt-manager in Mac OS X. It definitely appears to be Linux only. > The source code doesn't even have a configure script. Sorry. That doesn't matter. It's written in Python, it doesn't need a configure script. I think virt-manager might work on Mac OS X, but only to connect to virtual machines running remotely on a Linux machine. virt-manager relies on libvirtd running on the same machine as the guest, and libvirtd is definitely Linux only. Paolo