Comment 7 for bug 198957

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jhmos (jhmos) wrote :

Yes I did make refer to a library at first, in my haste to try out the manager I didn't look to see what was in the package, just assumed most anything beginning with lib had to do with a library.

>A useful notice when failing to connect to libvirtd saying that
>"Connection to local libvirtd failed. Is libvirt-bin installed?" or
>something to that effect is simple to implement, to the point, and
>doesn't introduce wrong dependencies. Sounds like a plan?

That should make it clear enough, good. I recall some applications even offering to initiate installing a package but I guess that would be more involved. Thanks for explaining the difficulties of package management, almost sounds like the dining philosopher problem.

Virt-manager works pretty well otherwise with KVM, have not tried Xen yet.