Re: Features request

[Michal Novotny <minovotn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, in my opinion you have to consider that virt-manager supports both KVM and Xen so you can't simply give KVM only stuff there. It's like the ac97 card request - Xen doesn't support this card so virt-manager doesn't have a choice to select it at all. In fact, there should be one way for already existing and maybe even domain creation - the information about connection type is stored when we have domain already setup but also, in creating new domain we know (due to virt-manager.log) what hv type will be used - whether kvm or xen so theoretically this should work to compensate the differences between KVM/Xen but I don't know whether it's a right way.

To your requested features:
1. Bridged networking - yeah, this could be good to be added there not to have to setup the bridge manually
2. Snapshots - like I said, you're referring to KVM so see above, Xen can save the machine to a checkpoint file while not running (ie. this shuts the domain down) or even when running (not shutting the domain down) and I think nothing else is there about that. I don't know about KVM options.
3. Additional networking options - what options do you mean? What would you like to have there?
4. Bridge wireless NIC cards - would this be useful?

Thanks,
Michal

On 06/17/2009 12:14 AM, bodhi zazen wrote:

I normally run KVM from the command line and it work well.

I appreciate and am impressed with the work that has gone into virt-manager.

I am wondering what the process is to put in requests for additional features ?

I would like to suggest adding some of the command line options to virt-manager, or at least a way to specify options manually.

Options / features I use on a regular basis on the command line not available in virt-manager are :

1. Bridged networking. Yes I know this can be manually configured and once configured works with virt-manager, still would be nice to see this automated.

2. Snapshots. KVM has a rich set of options for snapshots. Boot a snapshot, save changes, save the machine state, etc. Any consideration being given to adding these options.

3. Additional networking options would be nice. Host only , virtual private network.

4. Bridge wireless network cards.

Thank you.

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