[fedora-virt] customizing VMM on a per-user basis to use libguestfs?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Cole Robinson wrote:

> On 04/21/2009 02:07 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Cole Robinson wrote:
> >
> >> Per user configuration is handled by gconf, so if user1 changed a
> >> setting in Preferences, user2 would still have the default.
> >>
> >> However, there is no global way yet to change what the 'default'
> >> storage location is. There is a place in the new VM wizard to
> >> type in a manual path to provision (such as your home directory),
> >> which would then allow you to use libguestfs on it.
> >
> >   so is there a simple way to move an existing VM disk image from
> > one location to another that doesn't confuse the VMM?
>
> Not sure what you mean by confuse VMM, but there isn't any way to move
> around disk images in virt-manager.

  right, i noticed that.  however, ...

> If you create a guest with disk at /foo/disk.img, then move the
> image to /bar/disk.img, the old libvirt guest configuration won't
> know where the disk is anymore.

  so where does virt-manager keep track of where the various images
are?  obviously, if that was easily editable, that would be a
solution.  but, as you say, the current incarnation of virt-manager
doesn't support that.

> You can remove the virtual disk from the VM in virt-manager, then
> add a new virtual disk pointing to the new path.

  um ... you can?  how?  as in, how through the graphical
virt-manager?  i'm assuming what you mean is that you can take an
*existing* VM image file and somehow register it with the current VMM.
or are you talking about something else?

> Or you can use 'virsh edit vmname' from the command line and change
> the path.

  i'm not sure how that solves the problem once you move that image
elsewhere and virt-manager can't find it.  or am i just being confused
again?

rday
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