Re: [Qemu-devel] Mount image file feature

[Programmingkid]

On Aug 29, 2015, at 7:10 PM, Eric Blake wrote:

> On 08/29/2015 01:34 PM, Max Reitz wrote:
> 
>>>> Erm, well, I think I won't reply to that other than *cough* virt-manager
>>>> *cough*.
>>> 
>>> Linux exclusive probably.
>> 
>> Your point?
>> 
>> You said applications on Linux are generally more difficult to use than
>> comparable applications on OS X, by design. I said "Well, there's
>> virt-manager." You say it's available only on Linux. So how does that
>> make qemu on Linux more difficult to use than on OS X?
> 
> virt-manager is designed to be cross-platform compatible, and it IS
> ported to Windows. If the port to Mac OS doesn't already work out of the
> box, then I'm sure the virt-manager community would love patches.  And
> THAT is the gui app of choice for dealing with VMs in a cross-platform
> manager, since virt-manager IS a gui.  But this is not the virt-manager
> mailing list.  Here, in the lower-level qemu, we focus on providing the
> machine-friendly knobs, so that higher-level apps like libvirt, and on
> top of that virt-manager, can expose a nice gui that uses those knobs.

I just tried using Virt-manager in Mac OS X. It definitely appears to be Linux 
only. 
The source code doesn't even have a configure script. Sorry.

I do wish it worked on Mac OS X.