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

[Bryan Kearney]

Cole Robinson wrote:
> Bryan Kearney wrote:
>> Cole Robinson wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>>
>>> Page 5: Summary and Advanced Options
>>>
>>> http://fedorapeople.org/~crobinso/virt-manager/newvm2/newvm-pg5-1.png
>>> http://fedorapeople.org/~crobinso/virt-manager/newvm2/newvm-pg5-2.png
>>> http://fedorapeople.org/~crobinso/virt-manager/newvm2/newvm-pg5-3.png
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> For networking, the default is:
>>>
>>> - A bridge device if any exist, else
>>> - Virtual Network 'default' (comes out of the box with libvirt), else
>>> - First available virtual network, else
>>> - no networking!
>> Networking being "hidden" seems a bit odd here. In a decent number of
>> the cases I have used the tool in (not all) i wanted to select this. It
>> it possible to show this information on the summary, and then have them
>> click into advanced to set it?
>>
> 
> In the times you were changing the default network selection, what was
> the reason? Choosing from more than one virtual net or bridge? Just curious.

I had a specific bridge I wanted it to use. Normally.. I want it to use 
default, but in 2 use cases I have specific bridges which I want them to 
use.

> 
> The reasoning here is we want the UI to be as simple as possible for the
> out of the box user, which at most has 1 virtual network (and 1 bridge
> device if using xen networking). For these users, we don't want them to
> concern themselves with the default, we want it to 'just work'

I agree. Which is why I wonder can you show that in the review step.. 
and then have them click to edit.

> 
> Anything beyond that case requires explicit user setup ahead of time,
> they should know full well when creating a new VM that they will have to
> select some non-default network setup. Forcing them to click the
> 'Advanced Options' expander doesn't seem like a loss, compared to the
> gain of allowing new users to not have to even think about networking
> (either by showing the network drop down, or having a summary field
> showing some choice they didn't explicitly make.)
> 
> Thanks,
> Cole