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

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 03:48:46PM +0800, Henry Zhang wrote:
> Hi Dan,
> 
> Daniel P. Berrange ??????:
> >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?

No, if anything I think we'll increase the use of DBus. It is really now
a core part of the open source desktop API set, being used by both GNOME
and KDE alike, and for core system services like HAL, Bluetooth, etc.

Rgards,
Dan.
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