On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 03:06:43AM +0300, Povilas Kanapickas wrote: > Hey, > > First, let me thank you for the impressive piece of software that > virt-manager is. Hi, nice to hear that :) > I'd like to implement the external snapshots and hierarchical snapshot > view functionality. Are there any hard known blockers that would prevent > patches from being merged? Do the virt-manager maintainers think these > are worthwhile features to have? > > The hierarchical snapshot view would make external snapshots more > convenient to users, because it will expose the dependency relationships > between different image files. I think it is important given how easy is > to accidentally damage dependent VMs by e.g. deleting wrong file. The > visibility of full hierarchy would also allow limited initial > implementation where few operations would be allowed to non-leaf images. > Keeping the current linear list of snapshots would make this kind of > compromise very weird from UX perspective. > > Please tell me what you think and in case these are not bad ideas I will > come back with more detailed proposals and mockups. This feature is definitely good idea and there is already BZ [1] to track that feature in RHEL. The main issue right now is that it's still not fully supported by libvirt [2] which is kind of hard blocker. Pavel [1] <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1403951> [2] <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1402581>
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