On 03/02/10 15:37, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
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.
Glad to hear that. Are these bits in F12 virt-preview already?
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.
I meant migrating from another qemu management tool, be it some other
gui tool or self-baked shell scripts or something else.
Migrating from other virtualization products is harder of course.
cheers,
Gerd
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