virt-manager needs finishing polish

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 08:23:23AM -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
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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 at lists.fedoraproject.org
> 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
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