The following series of patches add support for QEMU to libvirt. The patches are: - libvirt-drivers-qemu.patch - hook up methods for inactive domains - libvirt-virsh-qemu.patch - hook up inactive domain methods to virsh - libvirt-backend-qemu.patch - the main QEMU backend The patches will be explained further in each email which follows. NB, the first two patches are ready for inclusion, but the last one needs more error handling, and another audit of the networking code to check in particular buffer sizes. For testing I used Damn Small Linux, and QEMU 0.8.1 from Fedora Core 5 (the one with VNC support) wget http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/damnsmall/current/dsl-3... Here is a suitable config file: <domain type='qemu'> <name>dsl</name> <uuid>fff64701-45b9-11cb-88e3-afbfe5370493</uuid> <memory>131072</memory> <vcpu>20</vcpu> <devices> <disk type='file' device='cdrom'> <source file='/home/berrange/dsl-3.0.1.iso'/> <target dev='hdc'/> </disk> <graphics type='vnc' port='5906'/> </devices> </domain> An example session with virsh: [berrange@aubergine ~]$ export VIRSH_DEFAULT_CONNECT_URI=qemu:///session [berrange@aubergine ~]$ virsh list Id Name State ---------------------------------- [berrange@aubergine ~]$ virsh define $HOME/dsl.xml Domain dsl defined from /home/berrange/dsl.xml [berrange@aubergine ~]$ virsh list --all Id Name State ---------------------------------- -1 dsl shut off [berrange@aubergine ~]$ virsh dominfo dsl Id: -1 Name: dsl UUID: fff64701-45b9-11cb-88e3-afbfe5370493 OS Type: linux State: shut off CPU(s): 20 Max memory: 131072 kB Used memory: 131072 kB [berrange@aubergine ~]$ virsh start dsl Domain dsl started [berrange@aubergine ~]$ virsh list --all Id Name State ---------------------------------- 1 dsl running [berrange@aubergine ~]$ virsh dumpxml dsl <domain type='qemu' id='1'> <name>dsl</name> <uuid>fff64701-45b9-11cb-88e3-afbfe5370493</uuid> <memory>131072</memory> <vcpu>20</vcpu> <devices> <disk type='file' device='cdrom'> <source file='/home/berrange/dsl-3.0.1.iso'/> <target dev='hdc'/> <readonly/> </disk> <graphics type='vnc' port='5906'/> </devices> </domain> [berrange@aubergine ~]$ virsh destroy dsl Domain dsl destroyed [berrange@aubergine ~]$ virsh list --all Id Name State ---------------------------------- -1 dsl shut off I'm also happy to report that it is also possible to use virt-manager with the QEMU support - just enter qemu:///session as the URI. That said you can't use the VM creation wizard, but it should be easy to hook that up. The fact that virt-manager works without modification is a really great proof of the value of libvirt abstract driver backend API concept - validating the decision not to make a Xen specific API. Regards, Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=|