[et-mgmt-tools] Features request

[Michal Novotny]

Well, in my opinion you have to consider that virt-manager supports both 
KVM and Xen so you can't simply give KVM only stuff there. It's like the 
ac97 card request - Xen doesn't support this card so virt-manager 
doesn't have a choice to select it at all. In fact, there should be one 
way for already existing and maybe even domain creation - the 
information about connection type is stored when we have domain already 
setup but also, in creating new domain we know (due to virt-manager.log) 
what hv type will be used - whether kvm or xen so theoretically this 
should work to compensate the differences between KVM/Xen but I don't 
know whether it's a right way.

To your requested features:
1. Bridged networking - yeah, this could be good to be added there not 
to have to setup the bridge manually
2. Snapshots - like I said, you're referring to KVM so see above, Xen 
can save the machine to a checkpoint file while not running (ie. this 
shuts the domain down) or even when running (not shutting the domain 
down) and I think nothing else is there about that. I don't know about 
KVM options.
3. Additional networking options - what options do you mean? What would 
you like to have there?
4. Bridge wireless NIC cards - would this be useful?

Thanks,
Michal

On 06/17/2009 12:14 AM, bodhi zazen wrote:
> I normally run KVM from the command line and it work well.
>
> I appreciate and am impressed with the work that has gone into 
> virt-manager.
>
> I am wondering what the process is to put in requests for additional 
> features ?
>
> I would like to suggest adding some of the command line options to 
> virt-manager, or at least a way to specify options manually.
>
> Options / features I use on a regular basis on the command line not 
> available in virt-manager are :
>
> 1. Bridged networking. Yes I know this can be manually configured and 
> once configured works with virt-manager, still would be nice to see 
> this automated.
>
> 2. Snapshots. KVM has a rich set of options for snapshots. Boot a 
> snapshot, save changes, save the machine state, etc. Any consideration 
> being given to adding these options.
>
> 3. Additional networking options would be nice. Host only , virtual 
> private network.
>
> 4. Bridge wireless network cards.
>
> Thank you.
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