[Fedora-xen] Newbie Virt Questions and comments on wiki/Docs/Fedora8VirtQuickStart

[Sam Folk-Williams]

John Summerfield wrote:
> Sam Folk-Williams wrote:
>> Aaron Metzger wrote:
>>>
>>> I am trying to migrate my virtualization infrastructure from a pure 
>>> Xen implementation to the more versatile Fedora virt-manager Xen/KVM 
>>> environment.  While doing this, I have hit some snags related to 
>>> areas in which pure Xen documentation no longer applies due to the 
>>> presence of lib-virt et al.
>>>
>>> First a minor comment on the Fedora8VirtQuickStart (draft I know):
>>>
>>> The section:
>>>
>>>> Building a Fedora Guest System using `virt-manager`
>>>
>>> no longer applies because between Fedora 7 and Fedora 8 there no 
>>> longer appears to be a "New" button or a "File New" option in 
>>> virt-manager.  It would appear that the only way to create a DomU is 
>>> by way of virt-install.
>>>
>>
>> The doc needs updating. I did some updating this weekend. The button 
>> is not as obvious now but it is still there (you have to right-click 
>> on the hypervisor to see the "New" option. I'm not sure why this 
>> changed, but I have updated that bit.
> 
> That's bizarre. According to the web site, you employed "UI Interface 
> Designers."
> 
> I think you need new designers, that's far from intuitive.
> 

Lucky for us they are happy to take suggestions and improve!

Figured this out - They had to remove the global new button, because the 
UI now allows multiple hypervisor connections. So you need to be able to 
have a new button that is linked to a specific connection. The button is 
now there for each hypervisor on the right side. I didn't see the button 
before. If you right-click, that's a second way to access it. I don't 
think it will be too hard to make the button more obvious.

-Sam
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