On 06/17/2009 07:02 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 04:14:02PM -0600, bodhi zazen wrote: >> I normally run KVM from the command line and it work well. >> >> I appreciate and am impressed with the work that has gone into virt-manager. >> >> I am wondering what the process is to put in requests for additional >> features ? > > It depends what your request is for, but typically either this mailing > list, or the libvirt mailing list, or file a bug report requesting the > feature. If you have ability to create patches even better :-) > >> I would like to suggest adding some of the command line options to >> virt-manager, or at least a way to specify options manually. > > This is an often requested feature, but afraid we explicitly do not > allow for specifying extra KVM arguments. libvirt defines a XML > config model that is idependant of any virtualization technology. > So exposing KVM command line args in this would break our goal of > compatability. If there are KVM command line args we don't currently > support that you need, please mention them so we can come up with a > generic way to represent them in libvirt XML. > >> Options / features I use on a regular basis on the command line not >> available in virt-manager are : >> >> 1. Bridged networking. Yes I know this can be manually configured and once >> configured works with virt-manager, still would be nice to see this >> automated. > > This is coming real soon .... scheduled for Fedora 12 > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Shared_Network_Interface > >> 2. Snapshots. KVM has a rich set of options for snapshots. Boot a snapshot, >> save changes, save the machine state, etc. Any consideration being given to >> adding these options. > > Our storage APIs in libvirt allow for creating LVM snapshots, and creating > qcow2 files with a backing file. We don't yet support internal qcow2 > snapshots for snapshotting the whole VM state, but that is planned for > the future. We don't have a target date yet though. > Just a minor point, the existing snapshot support in libvirt isn't supported in virt-manager (yet). Thanks, Cole _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
