[virt-tools-list] Configuring virt-manager (v0.9.0) from the command line

[Cole Robinson]

On 01/10/2016 04:05 PM, Digimer wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>   I've got a little web-based front end for managing high-availability
> clusters hosting KVM VMs. We use little rhel/centos 6 appliances for
> users to connect to the VMs using virt-manager.
> 
>   I would like to configure virt-manager to add/remove nodes (hosts) as
> needed, but I can't seem to get this to work if virt-manager is already
> running. If it's NOT running, I can either use gconftool-2 or directly
> create/edit the ~/.gconf/apps/virt-manager files and the next time
> virt-manager starts, the correct config is there.
> 
>   I would like to check to see if virt-manager is running and, if so,
> somehow update it with the new configuration. Is this possible?

No, it's not possible with virt-manager 0.9.0 or upstream. It could be
implemented based on watching gconf for added/removed connections, but it
would require a patch.

- Cole