[meta-virtualization] interest to integrate virt-manager?

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 8:19 AM, Gotthard, Petr
<Petr.Gotthard at honeywell.com> wrote:
> Hello,
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> I managed to build virt-manager (plus virt-viewer and the virt-* scipts) for
> Yocto, so I wonder if you would be interested to integrate the virt-manager
> (and related bitbake recipes) into the meta-virtualization? Or is there
> another recommended graphical manager for KVM?

I'm definitely interested .. see below.

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> https://virt-manager.org/
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> New virt-manager releases unfortunately require python-pygobject 3.0, which
> is (seems to be) not supported in Yocto (yet). I wanted to avoid the GObject
> Introspection (dependency on meta-gir), so I have scripts for virt-manager
> 0.9.5 only, which is the latest GTK2 release. (It’s better than nothing.)

:)

We also have virt-manager recipes and uncompleted work here, it slammed
into g-i-r and stopped .. needing on target compilation to finish the packaging
of virt-manager.

So I feel your pain!

At some point, we will need to figure this out, but having an older version in
the tree until that happens makes a lot of sense.

I'll compare what you have versus those other changes, and see what we can
pull together.

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> Shall I just post the .bb files (or a long list of patches), or would you
> prefer another approach? The virt-manager depends on gtk-vnc and few

Post the bb files. If you want to capture any significant points in
your development
history, feel free to split the patches. But otherwise, post a series that is
clean, and introduces the recipes from scratch directly to a working version.

> python-* packages that I also had to create. Should the new python-*
> packages required by virt-manager go also into meta-virtualization (as no
> one else is apparently using them), or shall these go into some other layer?

Start them in meta-virt, for initial introduction I prefer to have
support python
libraries near the code that actually exercises them!

Bruce

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> Please advise.
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> Cheers,
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> Petr
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