Bryan Kearney wrote: > Cole Robinson wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> >> Page 5: Summary and Advanced Options >> >> http://fedorapeople.org/~crobinso/virt-manager/newvm2/newvm-pg5-1.png >> http://fedorapeople.org/~crobinso/virt-manager/newvm2/newvm-pg5-2.png >> http://fedorapeople.org/~crobinso/virt-manager/newvm2/newvm-pg5-3.png >> >> The summary section is pretty straight forward, no surprises here. >> The 'Advanced Options' section encompasses networking, hypervisor, and >> architecture options. The hypervisor and arch defaults were explained >> above. >> >> For networking, the default is: >> >> - A bridge device if any exist, else >> - Virtual Network 'default' (comes out of the box with libvirt), else >> - First available virtual network, else >> - no networking! > > Networking being "hidden" seems a bit odd here. In a decent number of > the cases I have used the tool in (not all) i wanted to select this. It > it possible to show this information on the summary, and then have them > click into advanced to set it? > In the times you were changing the default network selection, what was the reason? Choosing from more than one virtual net or bridge? Just curious. The reasoning here is we want the UI to be as simple as possible for the out of the box user, which at most has 1 virtual network (and 1 bridge device if using xen networking). For these users, we don't want them to concern themselves with the default, we want it to 'just work' Anything beyond that case requires explicit user setup ahead of time, they should know full well when creating a new VM that they will have to select some non-default network setup. Forcing them to click the 'Advanced Options' expander doesn't seem like a loss, compared to the gain of allowing new users to not have to even think about networking (either by showing the network drop down, or having a summary field showing some choice they didn't explicitly make.) Thanks, Cole _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
