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 -=| _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
