[et-mgmt-tools] virt-manager features and roadmap tentative draft

[Hugh Brock]

Hugh Brock wrote:
> Red Hat team members had a meeting this week to look at the work ahead 
> for virt-manager. Based on our own thoughts and a list of outside 
> requests, we came up with this tentative roadmap for Fedora 7 and Fedora 
> 8. We'd like to hear from the community on additional features and 
> modifications to these as well.
> 

Apologies for the bad formatting of the last post. This one should be 
better:

Features		When		Issues
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Qemu and KVM backends	Fedora 7	Will need libvirt support
OS profiles		Fedora 7	Should be able to select an OS
					type when installing a full-virt
					guest, so we can pass
					appropriate boot parameters
					(acpi on/off for example).
Mouse pointer in
   console for PV	Fedora 7	Already works in rawhide for
					RHEL5 and Fedora 6 guests, with
					configuration.
Drop-down lists for PV
  installs		Fedora 7	We would like to prepopulate the
					PV kernel source lists with some
					sensible URLs. Problem: mirror
					selection?
Group operations	Fedora 7	We would like to be able to
					select multiple guests at once
					for certain operations
					(shutdown, for example).
UI for block/net devs   Fedora 7	We need UI for adding vbds and
					vnics to guests. Support for
					this is already available in
					libvirt
XML output		Fedora 7	We would like to be able to
					write the libvirt guest config
					XML to a file, for export to
					other tools
Connect help button	Fedora 7	We need help text for all of the
					virt-manager screens
Crash-dump button	Fedora 7	Would like to have UI for
					crashing a guest and storing the
					crash dump somewhere. Support
					for this is already available in
					libvirt

Managing multiple			Requires libvirt remote mgmt
   remote hosts				support
  * connect dialog	Fedora 8	Needs some UI for remote
					authentication/authorization
  * manager window	Fedora 8	Should display hosts/guests
					in a tree or something similar,
					rather than the current simple
					list
  * VNC widget
    performance		Fedora 8	The Python vnc code runs too
					slowly to be usable when
					connecting over a network pipe.
					We need to replace it with a C
					widget.
  * VNC widget auth
    and encrypt		Fedora 8	The connection from the VNC
					widget to the remote console
					needs to be secured and
					authenticated


Dogtail tests		Fedora 8	We need a full set of UI tests
					now that the UI is somewhat
					stabilized.


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