[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#498750: Ability to impotr existing qemu/kvm images

[Jelmer Vernooij]

Package: virt-manager
Version: 0.5.4-4
Severity: wishlist

It would be nice if virt-manager supported importing existing kvm/qemu
images and just specifying the capabilities of the virtual machine. It is 
possible to work around this at the moment by creating a new XML file 
using the "new machine" wizard and then replacing the newly created .img file 
with an older one, but it would be neat if this was a bit easier.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages virt-manager depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.22.0-1       The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                     2.8+20080809-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                 1.6.4-6        The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.18.0-1       The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.12.11-3      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.21.3-1       Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  librsvg2-common           2.22.2-2       SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  python-dbus               0.83.0-1       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  python-glade2             2.12.1-6       GTK+ bindings: Glade support
ii  python-gnome2             2.22.0-1       Python bindings for the GNOME desk
ii  python-gtk-vnc            0.3.6-2        A VNC viewer widget for GTK+ (Pyth
ii  python-gtk2               2.12.1-6       Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
ii  python-libvirt            0.4.4-3        libvirt Python bindings
ii  python-urlgrabber         3.1.0-4        A high-level cross-protocol url-gr
ii  python-vte                1:0.16.14-3    Python bindings for the VTE widget
ii  python2.5                 2.5.2-11       An interactive high-level object-o
ii  virtinst                  0.300.3-5      Programs to create and clone virtu

Versions of packages virt-manager recommends:
ii  hal                           0.5.11-3   Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  libvirt-bin                   0.4.4-3    the programs for the libvirt libra

Versions of packages virt-manager suggests:
ii  virt-viewer                   0.0.3-2    Displaying the graphical console o

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