Virt Tools Project Status (2010-07-12)
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The mission: Our open source virt tools -- virt-manager, virt-install,
virsh, V2V, libguestfs, etc -- are useful but fragmented.  Bring these
together, provide organization, consistency and future planning.

The audience: We want to build tools that help end users, developers,
and sysadmins use virt on a desktop, or single server or two.

Current plans
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* Create a central http://virt-tools.org website.  This is not meant
  to replace the existing websites, but to provide a central
  directory and overview, pointing to existing upstreams.

* Write many more docs -- man pages, FAQs, how-tos, roadmap.

* Video demos (e.g. "How do I pass through a device", "How do I
  use guestfish").

* Unify tools' command line argument syntax.

* Fix virsh (it is a second-class citizen to the main libvirt UI right
  now, it should not be).

  + Make it more scriptable.

* Separate tool for creating/managing libvirt XML fragments.  Possibly
  a part of virt-install.

* libosinfo guest type metadata library

* virt-dmesg (for Linux guests, pulls dmesg info out of the kernel)

* virt-uname

* virt-inspector generates a full description of the guest's
  installed packages, configuration, etc. -- XML output from this
  should be unified with image-builder XML.

* Guest agent.

* virt-v2v:

  + p2v (as a small addition to v2v -- maybe just a CD you boot that
    makes the volume available, or runs the v2v tool on it).

  + qcow2 for KVM (import/export).

  + RHEV-M integration.

  + virt-manager integration.

  + Text console drivers (virtio-console).

  + Sparse ("thin") disk support.

  + SPICE support.

  + VMDK support.

* virt-manager

  + UI scaling (we shouldn't blow up if 100 VMs are defined).

  + Integrate future spice-gtk widget w/virt-viewer.

  + right-click, virt-inspector, guestfs-browser, libosinfo, start.

  + QEMU-session (need NetworkManager bridge/tap device, or something
    else to allow non-root user to create a bridge for the guests).

  + Run an app from a guest in a seamless window on the host desktop.

  + Cross platform, for making it work on MacOS X and Windows

  + Redesign interface, for usability

  + plug-ins, to allow people to write customised extension

* guestfs-browser