From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A58C1381F3 for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2012 13:58:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8294721C008; Mon, 3 Dec 2012 13:58:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f53.google.com (mail-bk0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8F6C8E068C for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2012 13:56:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-bk0-f53.google.com with SMTP id j5so1043623bkw.40 for ; Mon, 03 Dec 2012 05:56:53 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=JnF0amJNBUof4Z7sjKNVxiI59ZtTouCjAo3MZDXJ4oU=; b=tlfcx+20qkt+21PSQD/3JXlGLXiAWzBuYcCx0kOH3tWhGj7CzalGcMQLGzzZobcBEp 61PUr73rp2h5+sK8Znd49j4rtlYwhi/JZY7EItlYq49+xGonQuD/gIuk9oxpy78E2HKX 509GyskqwIFUp/TsflerSfWA3AT7JlN5m34LokdPvRCON64pKlReK0okccXoi+25Lmpe luXvZEKsmQAIhCKaekuKmBFT5YwDPZcvi2iNaa/BJP8k49gRWq1TTxtId4LFE+DImvmR 71WHpv1/1ihi20oMMRoj33q0shWD39MfkIklx0i02t1+W5Ow5d8WyPDQjz2BdbUoYssr D1vw== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.153.27 with SMTP id i27mr2810927bkw.116.1354543013027; Mon, 03 Dec 2012 05:56:53 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.205.26.137 with HTTP; Mon, 3 Dec 2012 05:56:52 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <50BC62C1.2070801@hadt.biz> References: <50BC62C1.2070801@hadt.biz> Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 08:56:52 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] libvirt From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: e44dae97-ce83-44b8-a2f0-033a952b0aa5 X-Archives-Hash: 5e27df976ced68188702241a6f4cdfe3 On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 3:28 AM, Michael Hampicke 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 -- :wq