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

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 08:28:24PM +0800, Henry Zhang wrote:
> Dan,
> 
> that's great, see comments below...
> 
> Daniel P. Berrange ??????:
> >On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 10:52:13AM +0800, Henry Zhang wrote:
> >  
> >>Thanks Dan, please see comments below.. :)
> >>
> >>Daniel P. Berrange ??????:
> >>    
> >>>On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 07:54:24PM +0800, Henry Zhang wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>      
> >>>>hi Daniel,
> >>>>
> >>>>        
> >>>>From the webpage, I can see that dbus and gnome-python-desktop are 
> >>>      
> >>>>optional, but when our release engineer try to build, seems they are 
> >>>>not, so could you confirm me if we can build/run virt-manager correctly 
> >>>>without Dbus?
> >>>>   
> >>>>        
> >>>Ah, I should perhaps clarify that a little. The DBus python libraries
> >>>are required to be present, but you don't have to have DBus running.
> >>>      
> >>So can I say: Dbus is necessary one for building virt-manager, while not 
> >>when running it?
> >>    
> >
> >The DBus python libraries *are* needed at runtime. If the DBus daemon isn't
> >present though, we catch the connection failure and disable that piece of
> >the virtmanager functionality on the fly.
> >  
> thanks, I know what you mean,
> now for us, the problem is we don't want to port Dbus/HAL, it means when 
> we build virt-manager there is no Dbus/HAL in our system, if we want to 
> succeed in building, I am thinking to delete all codes relative to Dbus, 
> I find they are almost in remote.py, and some code in makefile, 
> create.py and virt-manager.py.in, do you think it's ok?

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

FYI, though I assume (from your email address) you're trying to get this
working on Solaris ? DBus should work on Solaris already, and I'm told
that there is also already a port of HAL to Solaris. 

Regards,
Dan.
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