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Stryder0
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 Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2017 12:19 am Post subject: virt-manager - where is the tool and the gui? |
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I am trying to create qemu/kvm virtual machines on Gentoo. I want to use the virt-manager GUI to do so.
emerge -s virt-manager outputs -
| Code: | * app-emulation/virt-manager
Latest version available: 1.4.0-r3
Latest version installed: 1.4.0-r3
Size of files: 2,606 KiB
Homepage: http://virt-manager.org
Description: A graphical tool for administering virtual machines
License: GPL-2
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Seeing the description, and the name being exactly the tool others are doing, I expected this to be the GUI I needed. But after installing, there is no command or tool called virt-manager at all. Both running virt-manager and sudo virt-manager in the console returned command not found. Also, i3-dmenu did not show any tools called virt-manager. It did seem to install some non-graphical tools. How do I get the virt-manager graphical tool running on gentoo? |
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| Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2017 12:32 am Post subject: |
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What are your use flags for virt-manager? Might have to use gtk?
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rob_dot_p
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| Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2017 12:49 am Post subject: |
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Just gave it a try.
Seems to segfault |
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eccerr0r
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Post errors?
Libvirt is running?
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rob_dot_p
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| Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2017 1:02 am Post subject: |
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| eccerr0r wrote: | Post errors?
Libvirt is running? |
I don't want to derail the thread since OP could have a different problem, just saying, didn't work for me either, there could be something wrong with the package.
Stryder0, could you use dev-util/strace and also take a look at your logs?
It dies silently on my system without complaints but syslog and strace reveal a segmentation fault.
| Code: | [ 81.511880] python2.7[2739]: segfault at 18 ip 000003bfc5627749 sp 000003f3251e9610 error 4 in libpython2.7.so.1.0[3bfc55db000+1a6000]
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eccerr0r
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| Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2017 1:11 am Post subject: |
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yes you probably have different problems than the OP (no virt-manager executable shows up!), and likely should have started your own thread. In any case I'd look at your compilation flags or hardware issues as I would not expect python libraries to segfault.
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Stryder0
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| Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2017 1:12 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah it was because forgot to add GTK as a use flag - or rather i think i might have added it to the wrong package accidentally. |
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rob_dot_p
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| Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2017 1:17 am Post subject: |
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| eccerr0r wrote: | | yes you probably have different problems than the OP (no virt-manager executable shows up!) |
Can confirm this as well. |
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2017 12:26 pm Post subject: |
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in a shell runs the GUI.
| Code: | | app-emulation/virt-manager-1.4.1::gentoo_static USE="gtk -gnome-keyring (-policykit) -sasl" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7" |
The GUI looks like it may be optional.
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Stryder0
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| Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 1:35 am Post subject: |
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| Yes, the GUI is optional. You need USE=gtk in order for the virt-manager tool to even install from the virt-manager package. The original problem was that the command virt-manger returned "command not found" because I had not had gtk as a use flag. After adding it and reinstalling virt-manger it fixed it. |
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