Re: [gentoo-user] libvirt

[Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 3:28 AM, Michael Hampicke <gentoo-user@hadt.biz> wrote:
> Am 03.12.2012 04:22, schrieb Michael Mol:
>> So, anyone have any experience with libvirt here? I'm familiar with
>> VMWare and Xen. Not so much libvirt, which I understand to be a
>> wrapper around other virt models.
>>
>> Starting from scratch in virsh...how do I ask libvirtd what pool
>> formats it supports?
>>
>> --
>> :wq
>>
>
> Do you need a virsh command, or is it enough to know libvirt supports?
> In the second case you might look at [1]

Well, given that I'm on gentoo, USE flags start getting involved in
enabling and disabling functionality. Rather than actively examining
the compile-time factors, I was hoping for a way to simply ask
libvirtd via virsh. Going that route gives me an approach that works
weather I'm on Gentoo, Linux, Debian or whatever.

>
> You also might take a look at virt-manager (in portage) which is a gui
> for libvirt that manages libvirt on your local machine an remote
> machines (via ssh tunnel for example).

I've played with virt-manager before. I could use it again, but at
least part of this exercise is to learn libvirt and kvm using a
spartan toolchain. So I'm trying to do everything I can via CLI. (I'm
handy enough with Python that I could use the python API bindings, but
I presumed virsh would be easier, if not simpler.)

> I am really happy with virt-manager here, it work very well on you don't
> need to remember all the virsh commands (which becomes pretty handy when
> managing storage, virtual networks and creating vms)

Yeah, I'm hoping to learn all those commands. I want to
proof-of-concept an approach for a high-availability NFS server using
VMs.[2] :)


>
> [1] http://libvirt.org/storage.html
>

[2] http://mmol-6453.livejournal.com/279980.html

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