From e196e567cbaae1b0a9859f329db7c866083b2c7b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sandra McCann Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 08:47:51 -0400 Subject: Trimmed down package description list to match target audience. --- en-US/Guest_Installation_Virt_Manager.xml | 44 ++++++------------------------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-) diff --git a/en-US/Guest_Installation_Virt_Manager.xml b/en-US/Guest_Installation_Virt_Manager.xml index 6db7e29..0600e3b 100644 --- a/en-US/Guest_Installation_Virt_Manager.xml +++ b/en-US/Guest_Installation_Virt_Manager.xml @@ -63,41 +63,22 @@ Group: Virtualization virt-top - - To use virtualization on Fedora you require at least the qemu-kvm and qemu-img packages. These packages provide the user-level KVM emulator and disk image manager on the host Fedora system. - - The following list describes some of these packages. + The following list describes some of these packages. Recommended virtualization packages - qemu-kvm and qemu-img + qemu-kvm - These packages provide the user-level KVM emulator and disk image manager on the host Fedora system. + This package provide the user-level KVM emulator on the host Fedora system. - python-virtinst + virt-install - Provides the virt-install command for creating virtual machines. - - - - - libvirt - - - The libvirt package provides the server and host side libraries for interacting with hypervisors and host systems. The libvirt package provides the libvirtd daemon that handles the library calls, manages virtual machines and controls the hypervisor. - - - - - libvirt-python - - - The libvirt-python package contains a module that permits applications written in the Python programming language to use the interface supplied by the libvirt API. + Provides the virt-install command line tool for creating virtual machines. @@ -105,20 +86,11 @@ Group: Virtualization virt-manager - virt-manager, also known as Virtual Machine Manager, provides a graphical tool for administering virtual machines. It uses libvirt-client library as the management API. - - - - - libvirt-client - - - The libvirt-client package provides the client-side APIs and libraries for accessing libvirt servers. The libvirt-client package includes the virsh command line tool to manage and control virtual machines and hypervisors from the command line or a special virtualization shell. + virt-manager, also known as Virtual Machine Manager, provides a graphical tool for administering virtual machines. - - + @@ -127,7 +99,7 @@ Group: Virtualization By default libvirt creates a private network for your guests on the host machine. This private network will use a 192.168.x.x subnet and not be reachable directly from the network the host machine is on, but virtual guests can use the host machine as a gateway and can connect out with it. If you need to provide services on your guests that are reachable through other machines on your host network you can use iptables DNAT rules to forward in specific ports, or you can setup a Bridged env. -
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Creating guests with virt-manager virt-manager, also known as Virtual Machine Manager, -- cgit