On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 3:28 AM, Michael Hampicke <gentoo-u...@hadt.biz> wrote: > Am 03.12.2012 04:22, schrieb Michael Mol: >> So, anyone have any experience with libvirt here? I'm familiar with >> VMWare and Xen. Not so much libvirt, which I understand to be a >> wrapper around other virt models. >> >> Starting from scratch in virsh...how do I ask libvirtd what pool >> formats it supports? >> >> -- >> :wq >> > > Do you need a virsh command, or is it enough to know libvirt supports? > In the second case you might look at [1]
Well, given that I'm on gentoo, USE flags start getting involved in enabling and disabling functionality. Rather than actively examining the compile-time factors, I was hoping for a way to simply ask libvirtd via virsh. Going that route gives me an approach that works weather I'm on Gentoo, Linux, Debian or whatever. > > You also might take a look at virt-manager (in portage) which is a gui > for libvirt that manages libvirt on your local machine an remote > machines (via ssh tunnel for example). I've played with virt-manager before. I could use it again, but at least part of this exercise is to learn libvirt and kvm using a spartan toolchain. So I'm trying to do everything I can via CLI. (I'm handy enough with Python that I could use the python API bindings, but I presumed virsh would be easier, if not simpler.) > I am really happy with virt-manager here, it work very well on you don't > need to remember all the virsh commands (which becomes pretty handy when > managing storage, virtual networks and creating vms) Yeah, I'm hoping to learn all those commands. I want to proof-of-concept an approach for a high-availability NFS server using VMs.[2] :) > > [1] http://libvirt.org/storage.html > [2] http://mmol-6453.livejournal.com/279980.html -- :wq
