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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| Dustin Kirkland (kirkland) wrote | #1 |
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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.