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libvirt
Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2017–2024), in 6 threads.
People raised many different problems with libvirt, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 6 complaints
- Terrible GUI choices made it hard to work with virtual machines2024-02-08
- Libvirt storage handling is verbose and complex, and fails with thin LVs or ZFS2024-01-30
- Libvirt is painful to use for running VMs in an HA failover setup2023-12-12
- CLI use requires hand-editing XML and fighting virsh abstractions just to run a VM2021-02-25
- Installing libvirt silently changed QEMU invocations to VNC, and the user can't find where2019-04-24
- Needlessly convoluted; wrapping qemu-kvm commands in XML is a mess2017-04-28