On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 03:22:07PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > 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. The ability to import existing KVM disk images is available in the latest release of virt-manager, targetted for Fedora 13. Migrating from another tool like VMWare is a much harder than just importing the disk image, since you have to update the drivers inside the guest, likely reconfigure several config files, etc, etc. There is work on a full v2v tool to automate this task, for both Linux & Windows guests. Regards, Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://deltacloud.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- 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
