On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 08:23:23AM -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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. It is better to take it to the virt-manager development list. http://virt-manager.org/mailinglist.html Fedora isn't the place to be re-designing apps, it needs to be discussed with the upstream community Regards, 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 :| -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
