[Neurodebian-devel] Creating Neurodebian image with Veewee

[Emmanuel Kasper]

> In what concerns Veewee, yes, these are all very typical issues with
> Ruby projects and I don't think that it's gonna get any better :-(
> 
>> Ideally I would have prefered provisionning with libvirt, but
>> unfortunately it only really works with the kvm backend. (see
>> https://gist.github.com/EmmanuelKasper/5861319 for a one liner for
>> Debian 7), so in the end Veewee remains the only general purpose tool
>> to create VirtualBox VMs.
> 
> Yes, I would very much prefer to use libvirt too. Do you have the
> details w.r.t. what's wrong with its virtualbox backend?
> 
> http://libvirt.org/drvvbox.html
> 
> I was under impression that it's ought to work...
> 

Well with libvirt 0.9.12 and I just managed to start and stop virtualbox
machines.

I have seen a very detailed table API showing which API call was
implemented on which hypervisor, and really few calls were implemented
vor Virtualbox (IIRC  the storage creation API calls were not
implemented for VirtualBox, hard to create a VM without that)

I can't find that page anymore, but it was on the libvirt site.
To the best of my knowledge, libvirt is great for KVM, fine for LXC and
Xen, other hypervisors have just basic functionalities implemented.