[Fedora-xen] What's the Pre-requisites for virt-manager

[Henry Zhang]

Hi Dan,

Daniel P. Berrange 写道:
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 04:43:49PM +0800, Henry Zhang wrote:
>   
>> Dan,
>>     
>>> Yes, it should be pretty straightforward for you to remove the DBus bits
>>> completely - just remove the src/virtManager/remote.py file, and any 
>>> referneces
>>> to DBus in srv/virt-manager.py.in
>>>  
>>>       
>> I checked the codes in create.py, seems if we delete DBus/HAL, we will 
>> can't list cdrom volumes when user
>> selects "New Virtual Machine...". I think it's a big issue if not 
>> support CD install for guest Domain,
>>     
>
> Ahh yes, sorry I completely forgot that we use DBus to talk to HAL to
> get a list of CDROM devices available on the host system. This allows
> you to easy install an HVM fullyvirt guest using media inserted into
> you host, rather than forcing you to copy the media into an ISO file
> first.
>   
Yes, I think CD install is really very important feature, so do you have 
plan to add some codes,
so that virt-manager can work correctly for getting CDROM devices when 
without DBUS/HAL?
>   
>> And seems there is an applet named gnome-nv-applet, but I didn't find 
>> any infor from our virt-manager website,
>> should we list it in this webpage? and seems this applet is also using 
>> DBus to access virt-manager, so if I delete
>> DBus/HAL, seems this applet can't work eigher.
>>     
>
> The applet used to use DBus, but now uses command line args to launch
> virt-manager.
>
> Regards,
> Dan.
>