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

[Hugh Brock]

Hugh Brock wrote:
> 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 two posts (Thunderbird
and tabs are not behaving well for me). This one should be more readable...

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.

--Hugh

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