I tried to fire up a VM today, only to discover that virt-manager is no longer present on my Tumbleweed installation. I’ve done several dup’s since running a VM, so I can’t pinpoint the exact time that this happened.
I do not recall explicitly removing virt-man. I suppose it could have been removed while running zypper dup (I doubt this); to be honest I’m not really that vigilant when I read over the upcoming changes. The xml files are still present in /etc/libvirt/qemu, fortunately. I’ve also got those on an external backup.
I see that virt-man is deprecated by RHEL, but maintained upstream and still available in the Tumbleweed repo.
Questions are:
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What could have happened? I’ve never had an application disappear like that.
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Is there a method for figuring out what caused this? For me, this is the most interesting aspect of my problem. I suppose I could search through my history files to discover if I actually hosed myself.
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Now that things are messed up, should I reinstall virt-man, or go with something like Cockpit or Proxmox? Initially, I installed virt-man because I wanted a GUI VM manager, and didn’t need/want a web dashboard, and also didn’t need remote access.
This is only for fooling around with VM’s, nothing enterprise or critical.
Thanks,
Karl
