[et-mgmt-tools] RFC: virt-manager: Redesigned 'New VM' wizard

[Guido Günther]

On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 07:50:28PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 08:12:03PM +0100, Guido G?nther wrote:
> > Hi Cole,
> > this all looks great.
> > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 05:50:15PM -0500, Cole Robinson wrote:
> > > The summary section is pretty straight forward, no surprises here.
> > > The 'Advanced Options' section encompasses networking, hypervisor, and
> > > architecture options. The hypervisor and arch defaults were explained above.
> > An option to select disk (scsi, ide, virtio) and network adapter model
> > (e1000, ...) as advanced options would be great (still defaulting to
> > virtio if supported via the osdict) since there are some OSes that don't
> > support all hardware out of the box and there are kvm/qemu versions that
> > have problems with certain adapter types.
> 
> If there are combinations of OS,Disk that don't work IMHO we should
> improve the OS type metadata so we don't use them. Choice of specific
> hardware models is something we really want to keep out of the new VM
> wizard, because the end user really isn't in a position to have the
> knowledge to make suitable choices.
Sometimes it's not an issue of the guest but of the hypervisor like
missing PXE roms[1]. Attached is a patch Andreas Unterkircher that adds
NIC model selection to the advanced options of the vm wizard (some code
could probably be shared with vmmAddHardware).
Cheers,
 -- Guido

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=521091
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