proposed universe demotion: virt-manager (or, a request for active maintenance)

[Serge van Ginderachter]

On 1 February 2010 12:35, Nikolai K. Bochev <n.bochev at grandstarco.com>wrote:

> If you agree that virt-manager doesn't belong in main, then maybe you can
> point out an application that is developed, maintained and fits the
> specifications to be either supported by the server or the desktop teams,
> that has the abilities of virt-manager. As i stated in my previous mail, i
> am advanced enough to use all the cli tools, i can even write my own python
> based web manager that can draw RRD graphs and whatnot, but that's not the
> point. The point is virt-manager is a graphical interface to a server
> service that offers a lot out of the box for both server and desktop based
> installs and it does it's job good , fast and easy. I have around 20 ubuntu
> servers with KVM virtual machines on them which i have to check upon daily.
> Now what would be easier - having to write a script that uses virsh to
> display some stuff , or i just look at the virt-manager and see if there's a
> problem with a machine ?
>

I second this opinion. If Ubuntu is serious about supporting KVM as an
enterprise solution, then a complete stack of tools is needed. Including
virt-manager of any another decent app.

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