Hi,
Are there plans to enhance virt-manager so that it allows you to specify the disk format during the VM-creation wizard? I create a lot VMs with virt-install (where I can specify it) but I also use virt-manger once in a while and would be great if we could specify it there (without first creating the disk image beforehand).
I saw an enhancement-request but it was closed as it was for RHEL5.
Thanks, Jorge
On 09/27/2013 09:58 AM, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
Hi,
Are there plans to enhance virt-manager so that it allows you to specify the disk format during the VM-creation wizard? I create a lot VMs with virt-install (where I can specify it) but I also use virt-manger once in a while and would be great if we could specify it there (without first creating the disk image beforehand).
I saw an enhancement-request but it was closed as it was for RHEL5.
What disk image format do you want? If qcow2, there's an option to turn it on globally in Preferences, and we will likely make it the default soon enough. Anything else (besides raw) we wouldn't want to advertise in the 'create' wizard since its supportability is suspect. And with a few extra clicks you can go Browse->Create Volume and have all the bells and whistles.
So for those reasons I don't want to promote another piece of UI in the wizard that could potentially cause confusion for inexperienced users.
- Cole
On 09/27/2013 10:12 AM, Cole Robinson wrote:
What disk image format do you want? If qcow2, there's an option to turn it on globally in Preferences,
Arrrrrgh. I missed that one, sorry. Yes, it is qcow2 that I'm using so this option solves the problem for me.
and we will likely make it the default soon enough.
That would be perfect!
Anything else (besides raw) we wouldn't want to advertise in the 'create' wizard since its supportability is suspect. And with a few extra clicks you can go Browse->Create Volume and have all the bells and whistles.
So for those reasons I don't want to promote another piece of UI in the wizard that could potentially cause confusion for inexperienced users.
Thanks Cole for the explanation. That makes total sense.
All the best, Jorge
On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 10:12:01 -0400 Cole Robinson wrote:
And with a few extra clicks you can go Browse->Create Volume and have all the bells and whistles.
I think the real problem is how well this is hidden. I used virt-manager for years by creating my images first before I stumbled across the fact that if I dug deep enough into the menus and dialogues I could have it make the format image I wanted without me doing it manually.
On 09/27/2013 10:34 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
I think the real problem is how well this is hidden. I used virt-manager for years by creating my images first before I stumbled across the fact that if I dug deep enough into the menus and dialogues I could have it make the format image I wanted without me doing it manually.
What I find odd is that, in order to reach the "Storage" tab, you have to go thru a menu called "Connection Details". If we're talking Network Connection Details then only the "Virtual Networks" & "Network Interfaces" make sense there. Perhaps a "Storage" entry of its own in the Edit menu would make more sense.
On 09/27/2013 11:11 AM, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
What I find odd is that, in order to reach the "Storage" tab, you have to go thru a menu called "Connection Details". If we're talking Network Connection Details then only the "Virtual Networks" & "Network Interfaces" make sense there. Perhaps a "Storage" entry of its own in the Edit menu would make more sense.
...I now realized it's the *hypervisor* "Connection Details" and that you can use virt-manager to connect to remote hypervisors so the name makes sense :)
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