Hugh Brock wrote:
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.
Apologies for the bad formatting of the last post. This one should be better:
Features When Issues --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -- Red Hat Virtualization Group http://redhat.com/virtualization Hugh Brock | virt-manager http://virt-manager.org hbrock@xxxxxxxxxx | virtualization library http://libvirt.org
