Re: [orca-list] Virt-manager

[Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com>]

I just assumed he was referring to those people who suggested Oracle's 
Virtual box, which uses it's own virtualization technology.

On 8/31/2015 9:00 AM, Alex Midence wrote:
> You were abundantly clear, pal.  I gave you something I knew worked with KVM but wasn't sure how accessible 
> it was.  Next time, do a google search to see if you are about to make an ass out of yourself before 
> responding so rudely to someone who took time out of their schedule to try and help you out.  Here's a link:
>
> https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-boxes/stable/supported-protocols.html.en
>
> Clear enough for ya?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Baechler [mailto:tony baechler net]
> Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2015 6:46 AM
> To: Alex Midence
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] Virt-manager
>
> I did an apt-cache search for kvm and came up with many items.  The package you mention was not among them.  
> Therefore, I don't think it supports KVM.
> This is assuming it's packaged in Ubuntu MATE.  I don't know what was not clear about my post, but I 
> specifically was asking about KVM support.  As it turns out, virt-manager is very accessible and is developed 
> by Red Hat.
>
> On 8/29/2015 6:25 AM, Alex Midence wrote:
> > I seem to remember an application called Boxes which does this sort of thing. It is part of the Gnome desktop 
> > so I am sure that it has  some a11y support  but I do not know to what extent.
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > > On Aug 29, 2015, at 4:52 AM, Tony Baechler <tony baechler net> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Is virt-manager accessible?  Obviously the VNC viewer isn't, but what about the GUI for creating and managing 
> > > virtual machines?  This looks like something I might want to play with now that I have a CPU with hardware 
> > > virtualization and Ubuntu MATE installed, but I don't want to install it if it isn't accessible.  I know I 
> > > can run KVM directly from the command line, but it would be nice to not have to do that every time.  I would 
> > > either have to write startup scripts for my VMs or enter a long command every time which is prone to errors.  
> > > It would also be nice to be able to create new VMs with a GUI like VirtualBox or VMWare without having to 
> > > study the man page every time to find the correct command line parameters for the CPU model, disk image and 
> > > memory allocation that I want.  If virt-manager isn't accessible, what is accessible that uses KVM?
> > >
> > > --------------------
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