[virt-tools-list] [PATCH 1/2] Default connection URI if libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc is installed

[Cedric Bosdonnat]

Hi Cole,

On Fri, 2014-12-05 at 09:49 -0500, Cole Robinson wrote:
> RH distros use /usr/libexec/libvirt_lxc, so we'd want to add that as well. I 
> can fix that when applying though

Oh, I forgot about that... but yes and /usr/lib/libvirt_lxc as well for
32 bits too.

> Are you adding this patch for completeness, or because it's something that's 
> needed/wanted in suse?

It's something I added to get a smoother experience for our lxc-only
users.

> Personally I don't think this is a good idea though. While virt-manager can 
> drive LXC, it's very different from qemu/xen particularly when creating VMs. 
> I'm afraid a clueless user would run virt-manager for the first time, 
> inadvertently end up connected to lxc, try to create a VM, and be confused 
> like 'wheres the option for CDROM install? etc.
> 
> In practice I don't know how likely that is on Fedora though, not sure why a 
> random user would end up with libvirt-lxc installed but not qemu unless it was 
> done deliberately.

It's pretty easy to install libvirt-lxc on SUSE distros without qemu...

> So I'd say if this is just a patch for completeness, it shouldn't go in. But 
> if you guys are going to carry it regardless, then we can apply this, and I 
> can add a 'python setup.py configure' option like --default-hypervisors to 
> limit what virt-manager will connect to by default. That's probably useful to 
> do anyways for freebsd bhyve guys at least

We're going to keep that patch around in our repos if it doesn't get it
here...

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Cedric