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

[Ben Kochie]

Yes, recommends == dependancies is the default.  Personally I found this 
default to be a mistake back when people still suggested you use dselect. 
But of course none of this has anything to do with virt-manager 
development. :)

-ben

  "UNIX is user-friendly, it's just picky about its friends."

On Mon, 18 May 2009, David H. Vree wrote:

> 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?
>
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