On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 07:54:24PM +0800, Henry Zhang wrote: > hi Daniel, > > From the webpage, I can see that dbus and gnome-python-desktop are > optional, but when our release engineer try to build, seems they are > not, so could you confirm me if we can build/run virt-manager correctly > without Dbus? Ah, I should perhaps clarify that a little. The DBus python libraries are required to be present, but you don't have to have DBus running. If it fails to connect to the DBus daemon, the app will log a warning and continue. The GNome Python Desktop stuff is competely optional - if you don't have the python bindings installed it will simply disable the VNC password saving altogether. > I carefully read the content in "Dbus Services", My understanding is > that Dbus in virt-manager is used to make other external application > call some core function, so that they can get display the window/dialog . > > When Dbus is used? > > "The remote control module provides the DBus service > <http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/dbusservice.html> allowing various UI > functions to be controlled remotely.": My understanding for "remotely" > is to run virt-manager remotely, is it correct? so will dbus only used > when remotely? if some application in local machine, it may also use > Dbus to run some function? Not quite - the intent with the DBus stuff is that if you run two copies of virt-manager on the same machine, the second one will use DBus to find the first one & just make RPC calls to it. It also allows other applications within the local X desktop to control various bits of its UI. 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 -=| -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
