[et-mgmt-tools] KVM: praise for F7 virt-manager, virsh, automatically starting guests

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That info from you was nice. Was thinking of how to start the vm
automatically at boot.

On 6/17/07, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 05:57:09PM -0700, Adam Monsen wrote:
> > First of all, the improved virt-manager that comes with Fedora 7 is
> > awesome! By simply clicking through the UI and exploring a bit I was
> > able to learn how to create a functional bridged network to the LAN my
> > host is on. I know naught about networking and this has traditionally
> > been the most painful aspect for me when I was playing with
> > virtualization some time ago.
>
> Great - glad its working well for you !
>
> > 1. Should virsh work with KVM in Fedora 7? When I run virsh I get only
> > "virsh: error: failed to connect to the hypervisor"
>
> You need to explicitly tell virsh to connect to QEMU/KVM since it
> defaults to Xen.
>
>   virsh --connect qemu:///system
>
> Or
>
>   export VIRSH_DEFAULT_CONNECT_URI=qemu:///system
>   virsh
>
> > 2. What is the canonical/"out of the box" way to start a KVM-based
> > guest when the host system boots? I'm fine with "just use
> > /etc/rc.local" or whatever if the infrastructure isn't in place yet
> > (if so, what command should I run?). But it would be nice to be able
> > to manage the guest from virt-manager after starting it up from a
> > script somehow.
>
> We've not hooked up autostart to the virt-manager UI yet, in the meantime
> you can use virsh like this:
>
>    virsh autostart [vm name]
>
> Th VM will be started by the libvirt daemon at boot time.
>
> Regards,
> Dan.
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