On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 11:25:05AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:28:18AM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote: > > The attached patch adds support for avahi polling > > to the virt-manager 'Open Connection' dialog. > > libvirtd advertises itself via avahi so we get the > > hard stuff for free :). To test this you will need > > to make sure Multicast DNS (mDNS, port 5353 udp) is > > open on your machine. > > > > I had a few more screenshots but fedorapeople isn't > > responding. The basic flow is: 'Open Conn' defaults > > to selecting a local connection, so the 'browse' > > checkbox and list are inactive. If a remote conn > > type is selected, the 'browse' checkbox and > > 'hostname' field become active, but we don't > > immediately default to actually browsing the > > network. Once the 'browse' checkbox is clicked the > > list becomes active and starts asynchronously > > populating. When an entry in the list is selected > > its hostname (or IP address if the hostname wasn't > > resolved) is placed in the "hostname" field. I think there needs to be some uniqueness filtering because its adding the same entry multiple times ! The 'Browse hosts' checkbox is overkill - just always have it enabled. There's no need to provide a way to disable it, since they can already type in a hostname manually if desired. When presenting a browse list, the avahi recommendation is to present the service names "Virtual Host t60wlan" and not show the IP address / hostname to the user. Let the user pick a service name, and then turn that into an IP address/hostname when we need to connect. Regards, Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
