Red Hat team members had a meeting this week to look at the work ahead
for virt-manager. Based on our own thoughts and a list of outside
requests, we came up with this tentative roadmap for Fedora 7 and Fedora
8. We'd like to hear from the community on additional features and
modifications to these as well.
Features when Issues
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Qemu and KVM backends Fedora 7 Will need libvirt support
OS profiles Fedora 7 Should be able to select an OS
type when installing a full-virt
guest, so we can pass
appropriate boot parameters
(acpi on/off for example).
Mouse pointer in
console for PV Fedora 7 Already works in rawhide for
RHEL5 and Fedora 6 guests, with
configuration.
Drop-down lists for PV
installs Fedora 7 We would like to prepopulate the
PV kernel source lists with some
sensible URLs. Problem: mirror
selection?
Group operations Fedora 7 We would like to be able to
select multiple guests at once
for certain operations
(shutdown, for example).
UI for block/net devs Fedora 7 We need UI for adding vbds and
vnics to guests. Support for
this is already available in
libvirt
XML output Fedora 7 We would like to be able to
write the libvirt guest config
XML to a file, for export to
other tools
Connect help button Fedora 7 We need help text for all of the
virt-manager screens
Crash-dump button Fedora 7 Would like to have UI for
crashing a guest and storing the
crash dump somewhere. Support
for this is already available in
libvirt
Managing multiple Requires libvirt remote mgmt
remote hosts support
* connect dialog Fedora 8 Needs some UI for remote
authentication/authorization
* manager window Fedora 8 Should display hosts/guests
in a tree or something similar,
rather than the current simple
list
* VNC widget
performance Fedora 8 The Python vnc code runs too
slowly to be usable when
connecting over a network pipe.
We need to replace it with a C
widget.
* VNC widget auth
and encrypt Fedora 8 The connection from the VNC
widget to the remote console
needs to be secured and
authenticated
Dogtail tests Fedora 8 We need a full set of UI tests
now that the UI is somewhat
stabilized.
Of course the schedule above is tentative, and we may well try to do
more. There is also some effort to be put into fixing bugs. If you have
any comments or requests for either the Fedora 7 or Fedora 8 time frame,
please share them here!
Many thanks,
--Hugh
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Red Hat Virtualization Group http://redhat.com/virtualization
Hugh Brock | virt-manager http://virt-manager.org
hbrock@xxxxxxxxxx | virtualization library http://libvirt.org
