On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
Hi Robert,
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 08:50 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
moving on, i'm continuing to document QEMU on f11 here:
http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/QEMU_on_Fedora_11
and i have (unsurprisingly) a couple of questions.
Interestingly, a lot of what you're documenting here is quite the
opposite to what we want "Fedora virtualization experience" to be e.g.:
- Users shouldn't necessarily need to know what QEMU is - using
virt-manager and virsh more or less makes what hypervisor is
underneath not terribly important
- We'd recommend people do "yum install Virtualization" rather than
manually installing individual RPMs
- We don't see "user emulation mode" as being very important - I'd
really be very surprised if many people use it
- We think virt-manager is a much more useful tool for most people
than qemu-launcher
i actually think you're right, i'm using my wiki as a scratchpad and
will almost certainly rethink things and toss stuff as i realize i'm
going in the wrong direction.
on the other hand, while it's nice to have a graphical front-end for
things like this to hide the underlying complexity, there have been a
number of times where i've wanted to see what was going on "under the
hood," as it were. particularly when i'm debugging.
i may very well end up deciding that this wasn't the right way to
approach this and toss the whole thing. i just like to have at least
a minimal understanding of how things work behind the scenes. but
your point is well taken.