[virt-tools-list] virt-manager for Windows

Matthias Bolte matthias.bolte at googlemail.com
Wed Feb 2 21:59:55 UTC 2011


2011/1/31 Matthias Bolte <matthias.bolte at googlemail.com>:
> 2011/1/31 Justin Clift <jclift at redhat.com>:
>> On 01/02/2011, at 5:50 AM, Kai Meyer wrote:
>>> I'm confident I could follow the instructions provided at http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/win32-porting/ , but it appears that was written a long time ago, and I'm in no urgent hurry. Do the instructions still apply? Is there somebody already building these on their own that I could piggy-back off of their efforts?
>>>
>>> I initially asked rjones (who claims authorship to the above article), and he asked I emailed the list, and copy jclift.
>>
>> Good thinking guys. :)
>>
>> From memory, Matthias mentioned on IRC a while ago that he'd gotten virt-manager to work on windows.  But, I also
>> kind of remember him mentioning he had to code in a few dodgy hacks to make it work.
>>
>> Matthias, am I remembering that somewhat correctly?  If so, is the code on GitHub or something that Kai could pick
>> up and try to work with?
>>
>> Regards and best wishes,
>>
>> Justin Clift
>
> Yes, I have virt-manager working on Windows. It can open a connection,
> list domains, start and stop them. I didn't try to create new domains.

> If I have some time left this week I'll take care of this.
>
> [1] https://github.com/photron/msys_setup
>
> Matthias
>

Okay, I've push the additional scripts for virt-manager to github now,
so you can give them a try.

Matthias




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