Cole, thanks for the reply! That was all very helpful. Sorry about the wrong list thing too btw. Take care guys! On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 7:26 AM, Cole Robinson <crobinso@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > FYI the virt-manager list is virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx, CC'd. > > On 06/19/2012 07:33 PM, Gene Crucean wrote: >> Hey everyone, >> >> I just subscribed to this list so please forgive me if I goof something up. >> >> I was looking into the possibility of porting VMM to OSX. Is this on the >> todo list already? Or something that anyone else is hoping for? Since it's >> all written in Python (with GTK for the UI), it doesn't seem like it would >> be too bad of a port. The hard part is finding all of the pre-req's for OSX. >> >> Would someone that knows this code better than I, know of any walls I might >> run into? Of course the gnome libs won't be available but I was thinking >> those would get replaced with cocoa interface libs. >> > > Porting from GTK to cocoa would be a pretty massive undertaking, you'd > practically be rewriting the app. > >> I've never ported anything before (probably obvious :) so any tips/advice >> are welcome. >> >> >> > > This dep list is out of date (yeah virt-manager.org kinda sucks). Take a look > at the virt-manager.spec.in file in the git repo/tarball, all the Requires: > lines should give a more accurate picture. > >> >> (Yay!) >> python >= 2.4 >> pygtk2 >= 1.99.12-6 >> libxml2-python >= 2.6.23 >> >> (Not sure if these exist for osx) >> libvirt-python >= 0.4.0 >> python-virtinst >= 0.300.0 > > These two are hard requirements. > >> vte >= 0.12.2 >> gtk-vnc >= 0.0.1 >> PolicyKit >= 0.6 >> dbus-python >= 0.61 >> > > These could be disabled with low effort, but virt-manager functionality would > understandably suffer. > > - Cole -- Gene Crucean - Emmy winning - Oscar nominated VFX Supervisor / iOS-OSX Developer / Filmmaker / Photographer ** Freelance for hire ** www.genecrucean.com ~~ Please use my website's contact form on www.genecrucean.com for any personal emails. Thanks. I may not get them at this address. ~~ -- 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
