2011/1/31 Justin Clift <[email protected]>: > 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. But I had to write dummy implementations for stuff that's not there on Windows like dbus and gconf. I wrote a minimal dummy dbus implementation, even though virt-manager has a --no-dbus option that doesn't disable use of dbus completely. I also wrote a minimal gconf implementation. Both are just stubs that make virt-manager usable but nothing more. The gconf part will need a more serious implementation based on the registry or some .ini file, otherwise virt-manager can't store it's configuration properly. The dbus dummy is good enough. The scripts that pull in and build all dependencies and virt-manager itself are part of msys_setup [1], but I didn't publish them yet as they still need some polish. If I have some time left this week I'll take care of this. [1] https://github.com/photron/msys_setup Matthias _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
