Re: [libvirt] Got time to try out the libvirt 0.8.6 win32 package?
On 14/12/2010, at 3:38 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
This raises the question of how the tools depending on libvirt
will be distributed. eg virt-viewer. If they're separate, then
we need to make sure the tools continue working, after any update
of libvirt without changing paths manually.
IMHO, rather than just distributing a libvirt installer, we should
distribute a 'virt tools' installer on virt-tools.org which has
a complete bundle of everything that has been ported to Win32,
libvirt core, language bindings and apps. The installer would of
course allow you to pick & choose which bits to install.
Yeah, that's not a bad idea too.
One of the interesting things that turned up from this exercise
so far, is that having a shortcut to virsh.exe in the windows
install menu doesn't work (tried it). Virsh (on windows) needs
to be given a connection string in order to do anything. Without
it, it just displays an error message then exits.
Using a shortcut at the moment means the user sees a black
dos prompt screen show up for a fraction of a second (not long
enough to read the text) then disappear. Not real practical, so
disabled the shortcut creation.
Thinking what we'd probably want to do for virsh is have a
dialog or something that lets the user assemble a connection
string, then launches virsh using that. Someone probably has
a better idea than that though. :)