[Ovirt-devel] The oVirt networking UI

[David Lutterkort]

Hi Mo,

after playing with this UI some more (from the HEAD of next), here's
what I think needs to be addressed:

Global networks UI:

* Networks should not be autopopulated; leave new NIC's unassigned
  (nics.physical_network_id = NULL, but edit NIC screen for nodes barfs if
  you have a NULL physical_network_id, though the DB schema allows it)
* There's no point in assigning an IP address to a network; that
  screen should be called something like 'Routing info' or 'IP setup'.
  Actually, there's no point in having a separate 'Edit IP address' form
  from the 'Edit' form - when user selects 'Static IP' as the boot type for
  a network, add fields for netmask, broadcast and gateway to the 'Edit'
  form.
* Edit network: can select all three usages, but saving with that does
  nothing. It should be legit to assign multiple usages to a network
* When displaying an individual network, also display the Usage

Edit network for individual node:

* NIC's dropdown needs to indicate the name of the interface
* NIC's dropdown should remove entries we know aren't external interfaces
  like lo and vnetN
* For a NIC on a static network, netmask, broadcast and gateway should be
  taken from the network, only IP address needs to specified for each NIC
* There's no way to see the list of NIC's for a host and the networks they
  are assigned to.
* Would be nice to indicate that a certain NIC should not be configured by
  ovirt (for self-managed nodes), i.e. user tells ovirt that NIC x is on
  network y, but ovirt won't touch the NIC's config

Edit virtual machine:

* The UUID next to the VNIC's MAC should be removed (is that the VM's UUID
  ? if so, it should go underneath the VM's name); instead, there should
  be a dropdown to select the network on which to put the VNIC
* When putting a VNIC on a network with static routing, user needs to enter
  IP for that VNIC

David