Re: virt-manager needs finishing polish

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On 01/20/2010 08:16 AM, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> After posting my initial blog post
> (http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/index.php/archives/fedora-virtualization-has-rough-edges/)
> and through discussion in comments and also in reported bugs I saw the
> great potential of virt-manager on Fedora as desktop virtualization
> tool that could replace likes of VMWare and VirtualBox but it needed
> some UI and usability polish.
> 
> Please take use case of installing Fedora or Ubuntu in virt-manager as
> benchmarks or ease of use for new users. How easy/hard is it to
> install Fedora/Ubuntu as virtual machines in virt-manager? Any install
> issues? How well do they work? Etc...
> 
> I covered some of that in my previously mentioned blog post and came
> to some later what would make virt-manager easier to use.
> After looking more deeply in virt-manager it UI indeed looks a bit
> clunky and assumes you are familiar with the way it works, not user
> friendly for new users.
> 
> For new users of virt-manager it would be great if somehow more
> emphasized in UI is done on explaining that there are these things
> called "storage pools" and also that there are two storage pools by
> default; one in /var and other in /home directory.
> 
> Fedora community has educated me to put any suggestions as
> constructive as possible and I did that in two RFEs and hope they are
> seeded in fertile soil and that developers see opportunity to improve
> usability of virt-manager
> 
> Here are two RFEs, please comment on them:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557103
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557107
> 
> Cheers!

You probably want to cross-post this to virt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
That might be a more focused discussion list.

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