[Fedora-xen] What's the Pre-requisites for virt-manager

[Henry Zhang]

Thanks, Dan,
So I will try to add some codes for this issue...

Regards,
Henry

Daniel P. Berrange 写道:
> On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 03:48:46PM +0800, Henry Zhang wrote:
>   
>> Hi Dan,
>>
>> Daniel P. Berrange ??????:
>>     
>>> On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 04:43:49PM +0800, Henry Zhang wrote:
>>>  
>>>       
>>>> Dan,
>>>>    
>>>>         
>>>>> Yes, it should be pretty straightforward for you to remove the DBus bits
>>>>> completely - just remove the src/virtManager/remote.py file, and any 
>>>>> referneces
>>>>> to DBus in srv/virt-manager.py.in
>>>>>
>>>>>      
>>>>>           
>>>> I checked the codes in create.py, seems if we delete DBus/HAL, we will 
>>>> can't list cdrom volumes when user
>>>> selects "New Virtual Machine...". I think it's a big issue if not 
>>>> support CD install for guest Domain,
>>>>    
>>>>         
>>> Ahh yes, sorry I completely forgot that we use DBus to talk to HAL to
>>> get a list of CDROM devices available on the host system. This allows
>>> you to easy install an HVM fullyvirt guest using media inserted into
>>> you host, rather than forcing you to copy the media into an ISO file
>>> first.
>>>  
>>>       
>> Yes, I think CD install is really very important feature, so do you have 
>> plan to add some codes,
>> so that virt-manager can work correctly for getting CDROM devices when 
>> without DBUS/HAL?
>>     
>
> No, if anything I think we'll increase the use of DBus. It is really now
> a core part of the open source desktop API set, being used by both GNOME
> and KDE alike, and for core system services like HAL, Bluetooth, etc.
>
> Rgards,
> Dan.
>