[Fedora-xen] starting a vm with virt-manager

[Jan Mark Holzer]

Hi Henning,

    currently virt-manager does not offer a 'Start' option for VMs .
    virt-manager will provide full life-cycle support over time , 
including 'start' of VMs
    in a future release of virt-manager .

    Right now you'll have  to start a VM manually using "xm create (-c) 
VMname" .
    The "restore" option in virt-manager is part of the save/restore 
capabilities
    in virt-manager/Xen . Save/Restore allows you to save/snapshot a VM's
    memory footprint onto disk and 'restore/restart' the VM from this 
snapshot
    in the future.

Hth,

- Jan

Henning Sprang wrote:
> Hi,
> Somehow I'd expect such a nice graphical tool as virt.manager, that,
> if I can install, (and start the installed machine directly after
> install), stop, restore, and do all the other nice things with a xen
> vm, I must also be able to simply start a vm for which I have a config
> lying around.
>
> But I see nowhere any "start a vm" option. The only thing that is
> there is a "restore vm" option, but when I chose a normal vm config
> file, it always says "error restring domain - is the domain already
> running".
> I assume, this function is really only for domains that I saved (not
> the same as  opposed to shut down, at leat in xen terminology).
>
> Is that right? Am I right that virt.manager has no functionality to
> simply start a vm with it's config file, and I must do this manually?
>
> Henning
>
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