On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 05:57:09PM -0700, Adam Monsen wrote: > First of all, the improved virt-manager that comes with Fedora 7 is > awesome! By simply clicking through the UI and exploring a bit I was > able to learn how to create a functional bridged network to the LAN my > host is on. I know naught about networking and this has traditionally > been the most painful aspect for me when I was playing with > virtualization some time ago. Great - glad its working well for you ! > 1. Should virsh work with KVM in Fedora 7? When I run virsh I get only > "virsh: error: failed to connect to the hypervisor" You need to explicitly tell virsh to connect to QEMU/KVM since it defaults to Xen. virsh --connect qemu:///system Or export VIRSH_DEFAULT_CONNECT_URI=qemu:///system virsh > 2. What is the canonical/"out of the box" way to start a KVM-based > guest when the host system boots? I'm fine with "just use > /etc/rc.local" or whatever if the infrastructure isn't in place yet > (if so, what command should I run?). But it would be nice to be able > to manage the guest from virt-manager after starting it up from a > script somehow. We've not hooked up autostart to the virt-manager UI yet, in the meantime you can use virsh like this: virsh autostart [vm name] Th VM will be started by the libvirt daemon at boot time. Regards, 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 -=|
