[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] virt-manager not yet in testing

[Henning Sprang]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Guido Günther <agx at sigxcpu.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 08:28:38PM +0100, Henning Sprang wrote:
>  > I know, virt-manager is quite redhat specific in these areas, and it
>  > might need some work to get it going - so I don't want to blame you -
>  > but ask if I might have overseen something that I can do to  make it
>  > work...
>  I've used virt-manager with Xen mostly so far but I did some things with
>  xen a couple of weeks ago.

Hmm - you probably mean you used it with KVM or qemu as of yet?!

> In that case we had several paravirt
>  instances already. What we did was starting the instances with xm,
>  then running
>
>  virsh dumpxml domain-id > bla.xml
>  virsh define bla.xml

Sounds interesting - thanks for the hint!

>  Afterwards things can be mainained via virt-manager nicely.  But you're
>  right virt-manager/virt-install need Debian support for xen paravirt
>  guests. I might need to write something along these lines in the next
>  weeks shouldn't we switch to KVM entirely.

I cannot promise to get too much involved, as I admin Xen from the
console. But I will test whatever you do :)

On the other hand, it's only now that libirt and virt-manager become
available on Debian, so I might come up with ideas how they can be
useful to me and I might get involved a little more.

So, looks like I can report to the Debian folks at FOSDEM now, that we
have the same tools available as the commercial Linux guys :)

Henning