Hi Dan,
Cool stuff ...
On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 04:21 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> As I said this is the first iteration just to get the UI up and running.
> Once people have played around with it, I fully expect some UI tweaks to
> improve the user experiance.
Some suggestions:
- It'd be really nice not to have the connect dialog when you start
up virt-manager - e.g. think of a first time user who selects
"Virtual Machine Manager" from the menus and is then asked about
"Open a connection" ... that's fairly intimidating
- Perhaps by default connect to Xen if run as root, and connect to
QEMU when run as non-root
- I'd be tempted[1] to not expose the notion of different hypervisors
in the UI beyond that. Maybe have a --qemu command line option or
something. If we do need to expose this in the UI, I think the most
natural place is in the "create VM" dialog[2].
- Failing that, maybe expose the hypervisor type as radio items in
the File menu, something like
File Edit View Help
-> New Machine
Restore saved machine
---
[X] Manage Xen VMs
[ ] Manage QEMU VMs
[ ] Manage Remote VMs ...
---
Close
Quit
- Also, suggest "Connect to" rather than "Open a connection", the
latter concept would probably only make sense to programmers
- I think I'd only use the "Connect to" concept with remote
management - connecting to a remote machine is a well understood
concept, but connecting to a hypervisor is a little weird. Perhaps
"Manage Xen guests" vs. Manage QEMU guests" as above
Cheers,
Mark.
[1] - As discussed here : http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2007-January/msg00093.html
