On 05/29/2013 05:53 PM, Leonardo Augusto Guimarães Garcia wrote: > Hey, > > It has been quite some time since I last touched this topic here, but I would > like to try to continue the discussion about providing something between > virt-viewer and virt-manager for end-users whose basic necessity is to have > access to the remote console but sometimes need to have some kind of control > over the virtual machine, even though he/she doesn't want to interact with any > other complexities related to the virtual machine management provided by > virt-manager. > > My first approach was to make this changes in virt-viewer, which was NACK by > community. Suggestions were: create a third application in virt-viewer source > code besides virt-viewer and remove-viewer to accomplish what I was trying to > do or improve virt-manager to have the features I was looking for. I > definitely prefer the later, and that's what I am trying to acomplish with the > latest patch. > > Although virt-manager has an option to start the console viewer (or any other > details window) upon start, the manager window is always started as well. What > I want is to avoid the manager window to be shown by default, so that a user > not interested in dealing with all the details of the manager window can use > the console view with a little bit more of control over the VM than is > provided in virt-viewer. > I agree that for something like this we should make virt-manager more convenient to use, rather than go down the long path of creating a new app to meet those needs. If you have any more suggestions I'm interested in hearing them. These CLI virt-manager options don't historically have much use, so I'd be fine with changing their semantics a bit to be more like virt-viewer. So you could do 'virt-manager --connect [URI] [NAME|UUID|ID]' and it will do the right thing, but also disable connection autoconnect for other non-specified connections, not store the passed --connect value in gsettings, make it work with launching multiple instances, etc. - Cole _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
