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Virt Tools Project Status (2010-07-12)
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Updates to this are posted every 2 weeks on this mailing list:
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
To make suggestions or changes, reply on that list.
Web: http://virt-tools.org/ IRC: #virt on OFTC.
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
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