On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 04:11:10PM -0700, Dale Bewley wrote: > On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 11:36 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 09:37:33PM -0700, Dale Bewley wrote: > > > The virt-manager new VM wizard defaults to Generic for OS Type and > > > Variant. It defaults to 'Debian Lenny' after you select Linux. > > > > > > It would be nice if it defaulted to 'Linux' and 'Fedora $host_version'. > > > At least on the Fedora release of virt-manager. > > > > Our goal is that the user should never have to pick the OS type/variant > > except for when doing PXE boot. I think its reasonable to make ti > > default to the current host Fedora version in this case. In non-PXe > > cases, it should be auto-detecting the correct type/variant from the > > install URL you give it. > > The OS type/variant dialog is presented at the same time the user picks > between cdrom/network install/pxe boot. The install URL is entered on > the following dialog screen. Checkout the latest virt-manager UI... In Fedora 11, the type/variant choice is on the same wizard page as the place where you enter the URL, and is auto-filled based on the URL > > > The installation media URL example is generic, it would also be nice if > > > it defaulted to the mirror manager download link for the version > > > selected above. > > > > It'd be nice to be able to pre-populate a list of URLs for all common > > distros, so you could simply pick one off the list. Any idea if > > mirror manager provides a URL we can fetch to obtain a complete list > > of all supported Fedora OS versions, so we can avoid hardcoding this. > > Yes, mirror manager > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/MirrorManager > can do that. > > Accessing > http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-10&arch=x86_64 > will give you a list of mirrors for f10 x86_64. In fact it will use > GeoIP to find a list of mirrors "close" to you by default. > > If you add &redirect=1 it will bounce you to the first mirror on the > list. > > Passing an invalid repo and/or arch will return a list of all repos and > arches. i.e. > http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=foo&arch=foo > There must be a more formal way to do that though. Is there a parameter > for that, Matt? The thing I'm particuarly interested in, is getting a list of all the valudate 'repo' and 'arch' parameters. THought we could hardcode these, its nicer if there's a way for mirror-manager to tell us what is currently officially supported, so we don't need to track EOL dates. > > > Also, libvirt ships with a 'default' network but not a default storage > > > pool. Should there be a 'default' storage pool > > > for /var/lib/libvirt/images out of the box? > > > > Yes, IMHO, if virt-manager connects to a libvirt host and finds that > > no storage pools are configured, then it should create one based on > > /var/lib/libvirt/images. > > Is the default network shipped with libvirt or virt-manager? I thought > the former. The default network is setup by libvirt (for historical reasons). If I were doing it again now, I'd have virt-manager create it automatically if it didn't find any accepted bridged network interface. 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
