ANNOUNCE: This mailing list is now closed / moved

As previously announced here

  http://www.redhat.com/archives/et-mgmt-tools/2009-July/msg00046.html

we are now closing et-mgmt-tools mailing list to any new traffic
with immediate effect.

All future postings to this list will be rejected with a message
refering users to one of the new mailing lists. For more details
read on....

This list originally came into being as a place for discussing projects
under Red Hat's 'emerging technology' moniker, hence the prefix 'et-'.
In retrospect this was a really bad choice of names for a mailing list
and causes endless confusion for people wrt what to discuss where. Most 
of the emerging technology projects have lists of their own (cobbler,
augeas, libguestfs, libvirt) and it is about time that virt-manager
and friends joined them.

To that end we have created a new mailing list  'virt-tools-list'. This
will be the new home for all developer & user discussions relating to
the following applications

  - virt-manager
  - virt-viewer
  - virt-install
  - virt-clone
  - virt-image
  - virt-convert

p2v and linux software RAID

I've got a bunch of machines I'd like to migrate to virtual machines,but
they are all running software RAID.  I found this bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=465587 but wanted to check
on the status.  I found that the live CD for p2v has mdadm on it, so I
can start the RAID manually from tty2, but I can't figure out how to get
p2v to redetect the drives (and I'm not sure it will even detect the
RAID devices if I start them).   

I was wondering, what would it take to make this work?  I could split
the drives, and change the partition type from FD (RAID autodetect) to
83 (Linux).  I could then edit the fstab to look at a single drive
instead of an md device.  Would that do it or does RAID write something
else to the disk that would throw p2v off?   I'd *REALLY* love it if p2v
would just detect and use the RAID. 

The bug mentions that Rich has no hardware to test this on...I've
gotboxen o'plenty, and am willing to test if that helps.

Trey Nolen

I need your help about virt-image

Hi,all
I am working on virt-image automation testing scripts,and I get some 
information from "man virt-image" and "virt-image -h",according to these 
info, I have could install a guest by commands,like this "virt-image 
--vnc image.xml",but I don't know how to use other options?I try to do 
something, but the result are failed,and interactive mode don't be 
supported by  "virt-image --prompt image.xml" like virt-install and 
virt-clone, in addition,I want to know whether can to install 
automaticly para-virt guest by virt-image?and if I have a guest image, 
whether can to boot it by virt-image + image.xml?virt-image man page is 
too old,given example can't run well in page.I hope developer update it.

your any information are very helpful to me,and thank you very much.

Alex,
regards

ANNOUNCE: New release virtinst 0.500.0

I'm happy to announce a new virtinst release, version 0.500.0. The
release can be downloaded from:

http://virt-manager.org/download.html

The direct download link is:

http://virt-manager.org/download/sources/virtinst/virtinst-0.500.0.tar.gz

This release includes:

 - New virt-install device options --serial, --parallel, and --video
 - Allow various auth types for libvirt connections (PolicyKit, SASL, ...)
 - New virt-clone option --auto-clone: generates all needed input.
 - Option to specify network device model via virt-install --network
     (Guido Gunther)
 - New virt-install option --virt-type for specifying hypervisor type
     (kvm, qemu). --accelerate is now the default behavior: To provision a
     plain qemu VM on a KVM enabled host, use '--virt-type qemu'
 - OVF input support for virt-convert
 - Many bug fixes and improvements

Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release through testing,
bug reporting, submitting patches, and otherwise sending in feedback!

Thanks,
Cole

ANNOUNCE: New release virt-manager 0.8.0

I'm happy to announce a new virt-manager release, version 0.8.0. The
release can be downloaded from:

http://virt-manager.org/download.html

The direct download link is:

http://virt-manager.org/download/sources/virt-manager/virt-manager-0.8.0.tar.gz

This release includes:

 - New 'Clone VM' Wizard
 - Improved UI, including an overhaul of the main 'manager' view
 - System tray icon for easy VM access (start, stop, view console/details)
 - Wizard for adding serial, parallel, and video devices to existing VMs.
 - CPU pinning support (Michal Novotny)
 - Ability to view and change VM security (sVirt) settings (Dan Walsh)
 - Many bug fixes and improvements

Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release through testing,
bug reporting, submitting patches, and otherwise sending in feedback!

Thanks,
Cole

[PATCH] virt-manager: Add system tray icon

The attached patch adds an option for a virt-manager system tray icon. Here's
a screenshot:

http://fedorapeople.org/~crobinso/virt-manager/vmm-systray.png

The icon can be used to quit the app, or start, stop, pause, or open a VM.
Showing the icon needs to be opted in via Edit->Preferences. This should be
handy for people that keep virt-manager running for a long time, and just need
a simple interface to start/stop a VM, or open a graphical console.

Questions or comments appreciated.

Thanks,
Cole

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RFC: virt-manager: Manager UI rework

Hi all,

I've been reworking the main manager view in virt-manager. You can check
out a screenshot here:

http://fedorapeople.org/~crobinso/virt-manager/vmm-manager-1-overview.png

The code can be cloned from here:

http://fedorapeople.org/~crobinso/virt-manager/virt-manager.manager_ui

I've changed the following pieces:

- Lower button bar is now a toolbar at the top of the window. I think
this is obvious: a toolbar at the top is much more in line with existing
UI convention, and is more intuitive.

- Dropped the 'View: Active/Inactive' combo box. I don't think anybody
was using this option, and it was only taking up space.

- Dropped all columns except Name, Status, and Stats. Columns like vcpus
and memory progress bar really added no value. Most of these columns
were for stats reporting which, while useful, would largely balloon the
list (if enabled) to the point of uselessness. If we want good stats
comparison, we should have an entire separate screen for this, which
could provide many more comparison metrics.

- Allow changing what the single graph column is measuring: cpu, disk,
or network. This way users can still have an at a glance comparison of
the metric of their choice. Screenshot:

Building Virt-Manager on RHEL 5.4 Beta

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How to get virsh console working on KVM

When consoling to my KVM guest, I'm not getting the expected result, which is to be placed on the login
prompt, instead I get this:

[root <at> N1-I-FKVM-01 ~]# virsh list
 Id Name                 State
----------------------------------
  9 N1ICOB01             running
 26 SPWALKTEST           running
 29 N1IASMGT01           running

[root <at> N1-I-FKVM-01 ~]# virsh console 29
Connected to domain N1IASMGT01
Escape character is ^]

I modified the /etc/inittab of the guest to include a ttyS0 terminal and I allowed it via /etc/securetty.
What other steps are missing? I would especially like to get this working during the installation of the
KVM guest, so that I don't have to resort to virt-manager.

Thanks

Failed to view VM detail with virt-manager

Hi,

I compiled and installed virt-manager, libvirt & virt-viewer from
source code. I can start/stop a VM from inside virt-manager.

However, when I view a VM detail using menu Edit/Virtual Machine
Details, I get the below error.

Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py", line 272, in
show_details
   details = vmmDetails(self.get_config(), con.get_vm(uuid), self)
 File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/details.py", line 232, in __init__
   self.update_scaling()
 File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/details.py", line 450, in
update_scaling
   curscale = self.vncViewer.get_scaling()
AttributeError: 'gtkvnc.Display' object has no attribute 'get_scaling'

How can I fix this problem?

Thanks,
J

--accelerate option doesnt work with virt-install --import?

Hi,

I imported an KVM image to libvirt with virt-install. I run command like:

virt-install --import -f img.winxp -v --accelerate ...

However, then when the VM is started, it still runs with -no-kvm
option (I checked that via "ps"). This means --accelerate fails to
work?

Now I want to reconfigure my VM to work with KVM. How can I do that
now? (Config file under /etc/libvirt/qemu/ has no option to run KVM
on)

Thanks,
J