From b39d11eb76f38d876b31a15cce24f9aa2f964eca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: kraxel Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:56:53 +0000 Subject: makefile and readme updates. --- GNUmakefile | 6 ++++-- README | 22 ++++++++++++++++++---- 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/GNUmakefile b/GNUmakefile index 7fcb5e2..91190e8 100644 --- a/GNUmakefile +++ b/GNUmakefile @@ -45,10 +45,12 @@ build: endif install: build - $(INSTALL_DIR) $(bindir) $(DESTDIR)/etc + $(INSTALL_DIR) $(DESTDIR)/etc $(bindir) $(mandir)/man1 $(INSTALL_BINARY) $(TARGETS) $(bindir) - $(INSTALL_SCRIPT) qemu-run $(bindir) + $(INSTALL_SCRIPT) qemu-gtk-run $(bindir) $(INSTALL_SCRIPT) qemu-virbr0-if* $(DESTDIR)/etc + $(INSTALL_DATA) qemu-gtk.man $(mandir)/man1/qemu-gtk.1 + $(INSTALL_DATA) qemu-gtk-run.man $(mandir)/man1/qemu-gtk-run.1 # $(INSTALL_DATA) $(DESKTOP) $(appdir) clean: diff --git a/README b/README index 2f3b266..312d84d 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -6,12 +6,17 @@ This is a simple gtk-based gui for qemu. It is designed to run independant from the qemu process, so you can stop and restart the gui without disturbing your virtual machines. -qemu-gtk doesn't (yet?) support starting and stopping virtual -machines. It can only connect to a already running qemu process. +qemu-gtk doesn't support starting a new virtual machines. It can only +connect to a already running qemu process. +qemu-gtk-run is a perl script for starting virtual machines. Gets the +vm configuration from libvirt. -using qemu-gtk --------------- +Both tools come with a manual page for documentation. + + +qemu-gtk quickstart +------------------- qemu-gtk connects to the qemu monitor using tcp or unix sockets and to the built-in vnc server. Thus you must enable the monitor and vnc @@ -29,6 +34,15 @@ qemu-gtk will figure automatically where the vnc display is, using the monitor. +qemu-gtk-run quickstart +----------------------- + +qemu-gtk-run fetches the configuration from libvirt (via virsh dumpxml +$name), assembles a qemu command line from that, then starts qemu +directly (i.e. *not* using libvirt for management). It also starts +qemu-gtk. Just "qemu-gtk-run $name" starts your VM. + + Have fun, Gerd -- cgit