On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 03:56:24PM +0100, Radek Hladik wrote: > Cole Robinson napsal(a): > >Hi all, > > > >The current 'New VM' wizard has clearly started to show its age. The > >original design was largely based on xen specific assumptions and the > >state of libvirt/virtinst at the time: many of those assumptions don't > >apply today, or require a bit more thought since we now support both xen > >and qemu based VMs. > > > >You can find a patch for a new implementation of the 'New VM' wizard here: > > > >http://fedorapeople.org/~crobinso/virt-manager/newvm2/virt-manager-newvm-01.patch > > > > I have to say I like this redesign. However I am missing two options in > the wizard at all (and I missed them in the old one too). I would like > to be able to just create a new machine and do not install anything on > it and/or do not startup it. So I would like to see the install method > "No installation" and an advanced option "do not start the VM now". > There are situations when you do not want to start the VM right away. I > can address both issues with installing from dummy ISO image (actually > RIP linux :-) ) and stopping the machine, but I think it would be nice > to have the options right in the wizard. Yeah, this is the so called 'import existing disk image' or 'run livecd' use case. I can't remember off hand whether we were intending to put this in the 'new vm' wizard or have a separate option for doing that. It is probably easy enough to just have it all in one, now we've got the "install media" choice up-front. 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
