On 03/02/10 14:37, Nikolai K. Bochev wrote:
I don't see where this argument is leading to. So far there are arguments that qemu/kvm sucks as a desktop virtualization, now suddenly the gui tools are shitty and everything should be done cli , because there's no man pages for virt-manager. Explain.
Lets face it: virt-manager has a big bunch of problems. For starters there is no (gui) way to create a virtual machine other than installing one from a iso image or via pxe. So if you downloaded a disk image and want to boot it -> no cookie for you. Likewise if you have a bunch of already installed guests and want to migrate from $othertool to virt-manager you can't do that easily.
virt-manager builds on top of libvirt, so you always have the option to use other tools (virsh command line shell for example) to get something done which virt-manager doesn't provide a gui for. libvirt can handle everything Peter asked for without problems. It still sucks though. The whole point of a GUI is that you do *not* have to go to libvirt.org to figure how to tweak the virtual machine config xml using "virsh edit $vmname".
cheers, Gerd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
