I've now completed the first iteration of support for QEMU / KVM in the
virt-install and virt-manager tools.
For virt-install there are a couple of new command line args. First you
need to request the QEMU driver, with '--connect [URI]'. Then you can
optionally specify a CPU architecture and whether to enable acceleration
(it picks KVM if available, otherwise falls back to KQEMU). So as an
example
virt-install --connect qemu:///session \
--arch x86_65
--accelerate
--name "Windows XP"
--cdrom /home/demo/xp.iso
--file /home/demo/xp.img
--ram 500
For virt-manager, the initial connect dialog box now allows you to choose
between a QEMU and Xen connection. From there everything else in the
virt-manager UI is basically the same as for Xen. The only difference is
that when creating a new VM, you can't choose paravirt - on the otherhand
you do get a choice of CPU architecture x86/x86_64/ppc/sparc/mips :-)
NB, it requires either the latest libvirt CVS code, or the libvirt 0.2.0-2
RPM from Fedora rawhide (the plain 0.2.0 release had a couple of bugs).
As I said this is the first iteration just to get the UI up and running.
Once people have played around with it, I fully expect some UI tweaks to
improve the user experiance.
The code is in mercurial, otherwise I plan todo a new release of both apps
in the very near future.
Regards,
Dan.
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