[et-mgmt-tools] QEMU & KVM support in virt-install/virt-manager

[Daniel P. Berrange]

I've now completed the first iteration of support for QEMU / KVM in the
virt-install and virt-manager tools. 

For virt-install there are a couple of new command line args. First you
need to request the QEMU driver, with '--connect [URI]'. Then you can
optionally specify a CPU architecture and whether to enable acceleration
(it picks KVM if available, otherwise falls back to KQEMU). So as an
example


   virt-install --connect   qemu:///session \
                --arch x86_65
                --accelerate
                --name "Windows XP"
                --cdrom /home/demo/xp.iso
                --file  /home/demo/xp.img
                --ram  500


For virt-manager, the initial connect dialog box now allows you to choose
between a QEMU and Xen connection. From there everything else in the
virt-manager UI is basically the same as for Xen. The only difference is
that when creating a new VM, you can't choose paravirt - on the otherhand
you do get a choice of CPU architecture x86/x86_64/ppc/sparc/mips :-)

NB, it requires either the latest libvirt CVS code, or the libvirt 0.2.0-2
RPM from Fedora rawhide (the plain 0.2.0 release had a couple of bugs).

As I said this is the first iteration just to get the UI up and running. 
Once people have played around with it, I fully expect some UI tweaks to
improve the user experiance.

The code is in mercurial, otherwise I plan todo a new release of both apps
in the very near future.

Regards,
Dan.
-- 
|=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston.  +1 978 392 2496 -=|
|=-           Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/              -=|
|=-               Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/               -=|
|=-  GnuPG: 7D3B9505   F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505  -=|