[Fedora-xen] Newbie Virt Questions and comments on wiki/Docs/Fedora8VirtQuickStart
John Summerfield
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Sun Nov 25 09:45:40 UTC 2007
Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 02:57:29PM +0900, 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.
>
> I've already stated this will be fixed in the next release to make it more
> obvious again. In the meantime, patches are welcomed, or you can just
> continue whining & making sarcastic comments.
I'm pleased it's being changed. If you think I was making sarcastic
comments, you've mistaken my intent. It was heartfelt, and on
reflection, fair comment. I really do not like the UI design.
As for patches, not from me. I can struggle out a bit of Perl if I must,
but Python has me beaten. My time's better spent helping people come to
terms with getting their Linux systems working.
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John
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