[et-mgmt-tools] virt-manager without KVM
Daniel P. Berrange
berrange at redhat.com
Mon May 18 15:13:28 UTC 2009
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:09:40AM -0400, David H. Vree wrote:
> I would like to run virt-manager on a number of Ubuntu 9.04 desktop
> boxes to manage virtual machines I have running on an Ubuntu Server
> box. However, when I select virt-manager for installation in the repo's
> it indirectly selects kvm as a dependency. However I do not need nor
> want kvm on these client workstations as all my virtual machines are on
> the server. Installing KVM on the client workstations loads the
> intel-kvm kernel module which interferes with other software running on
> these machines.
>
> Does virt-manager really require KVM to be running locally? Is there a
> way to get virt-manager up and running without KVM?
virt-manager has no direct dependancy on KVM, it simply wants libvirt. Your
libvirt install exposes whatever virt technology is available (XEn, KVM,
OpenVZ, etc, etc), so there should never be a need for a forced install
of KVM when selecting virt-manager. Best report a bug against Ubuntu
virt-manager package
Regards,
Daniel
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