On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 10:45:29PM +0300, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > Hi, > > We have a requirement in Boxes for showing progress bars on VMs under > installation: > > https://github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/raw/master/boxes/boxes-install6.png > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679107 > > However, we are bit clueless on how that could be achieved. The only > idea I have is to know the number of passes (reboots) and typical disk > usage in each pass for "every" (we only do this for express installs > so we don't need this for all) OS and estimate the progress based on > that knowledge. If that idea is worth looking into, we'll need this > information in libosinfo and hence me cross-posting this to > virt-tools-list. > > Other ideas welcome! Keep in mind that we don't need to be very > accurate, just accurate enough to not annoy the user. I don't see any general purpose way todo a progress feedback. The best you can do is to show whether /something/ is happening (by looking at disk & net I/O stats). If you want actual progress feedback then you're looking at modifying the guest OS init process / installer to send feedback over a virtio-serial device directly, or indirectly via a guest agent. Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
