On Aug 29, 2015, at 7:10 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 08/29/2015 01:34 PM, Max Reitz wrote: > >>>> Erm, well, I think I won't reply to that other than *cough* virt-manager >>>> *cough*. >>> >>> Linux exclusive probably. >> >> Your point? >> >> You said applications on Linux are generally more difficult to use than >> comparable applications on OS X, by design. I said "Well, there's >> virt-manager." You say it's available only on Linux. So how does that >> make qemu on Linux more difficult to use than on OS X? > > 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. I do wish it worked on Mac OS X.
