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

[Guido Günther]

On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 02:43:58AM +0200, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> 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.
Yes, that would be nice. There's a new upstream virt-manager out which
I'll package up once libvirt 0.4.5 has stabilized a bit but from what I
saw in hg it doesn't support this functionality either. 
Adding this wouldn't be too hard since virt-image basically is the
commandline version of what you describe above.
 -- Guido