[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#874039: Package description is very old and insufficient

[Amr Ibrahim]

Package: virt-manager

Hello,

The package description of virt-manager is very old. It does not say 
anything about libvirt, qemu or LXC. It even mentions that the GUI is 
experimental, which is not the case any more.

I suggest changing it to:

1- From the Github page:

Virtual Machine Manager

This application provides a graphical tool for managing virtual machines 
via the libvirt library.

The front-end of the application uses the GTK / Glade libraries for all 
user interaction components. The back-end uses libvirt for managing 
QEMU/KVM and Xen virtual machines, as well as LXC containers. The UI is 
primarily tested with KVM, but is intended to be reasonably portable to 
any virtualization back-end libvirt supports.

Several command line tools are also provided:

virt-install: Create new libvirt virtual machines
virt-clone: Duplicate existing libvirt virtual machines
virt-xml: Edit existing libvirt virtual machines/manipulate libvirt XML
virt-convert: Convert VMX or OVF configs to libvirt virtual machines

OR,
2- From the homepage:

The virt-manager application is a desktop user interface for managing 
virtual machines through libvirt. It primarily targets KVM VMs, but also 
manages Xen and LXC (linux containers). It presents a summary view of 
running domains, their live performance & resource utilization 
statistics. Wizards enable the creation of new domains, and 
configuration & adjustment of a domain’s resource allocation & virtual 
hardware. An embedded VNC and SPICE client viewer presents a full 
graphical console to the guest domain.

About virt-manager’s supporting tools:

virt-install is a command line tool which provides an easy way to 
provision operating systems into virtual machines.

virt-clone is a command line tool for cloning existing inactive guests. 
It copies the disk images, and defines a config with new name, UUID and 
MAC address pointing to the copied disks.

virt-xml is a command line tool for easily editing libvirt domain XML 
using virt-install’s command line options.

virt-convert is a command line tool for converting OVF and VMX VM 
configurations to run with libvirt.


Thanks
Amr