[et-mgmt-tools] Re: virt-manager without KVM

[David H. Vree]

Thanks for the quick replies.  As I was composing my defect report I 
discovered the only defect was with me!   I had Synaptic set to treat 
"recommends" packages as dependencies.  First time I've been burned by 
that in 2 years....   Once I changed that setting, indeed virt-manager 
installed easy with only a small handful of other packages and ran 
perfectly.

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?