Re: [libvirt] [virt-tools-list] ANNOUNCE: virt-manager 0.9.0 and virtinst 0.600.0 released

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:31:10PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote: I had one complaint that the dependency on python-libguestfs pulls in qemu (from someone using virt-manager to remotely manage systems, so they don't want qemu locally and it wouldn't be any use to them for libguestfs). This is hard to solve, unless RPM grows soft dependencies like dpkg, which unfortunately has been rejected many times upstream even though it's a good feature of dpkg. We might _not_ make it a dependency at all. Virt-manager will still work, just without the enhanced inspection features. Just so you know ... Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/