virt-manage must not depends on kvm and other virtualisation platform software
Bug #589888 reported by
lunarok
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #556312: libvirt/kvm relationships (suggest vs. recommend).
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Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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virt-manager (Ubuntu) |
In Progress
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Low
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Dustin Kirkland |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: virt-manager
Hi,
I'm wondering why kvm-qemu and other virtualisation software are coming as dependencies ?
For exemple, my purpose is to install virt-manage on a laptop (that is not VT able) to manage server with kvm and surprise to get kvm-qemu coming as a dependency ...
As the softaware says "desktop application for manage virtualisation" so you install it on desktop, not on servers
That's my point of view and what I can have see at customers office (and for exemple, the VmWare client is not installed on ESX servers, and also when installing vmware client, you don't install an ESX server)
Changed in virt-manager (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
assignee: | nobody → Dustin Kirkland (kirkland) |
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This is related to Bug: #556312.
virt-manager currently recommends libvirt-bin, which itself recommends qemu-kvm. Thus, when you install virt-manager (even if you just want to manage remote machines), you get the whole hypervisor stack.
I think I agree with you -- that's wrong. I'm going to fix both of these bugs, lowering these to Suggests in Maverick.
There may be some documentation that needs updating, and perhaps a release note.
We have a couple of meta packages, ubuntu-virt-server and ubuntu-virt-mgmt that should be used instead, if someone wants to install the whole stack.