[virt-tools-list] No more VM details in virt-manager?

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Mon Oct 12 15:18:20 UTC 2009


On 10/09/2009 06:36 PM, Dennis J. wrote:
> On 10/10/2009 12:31 AM, Dennis J. wrote:
>> On 10/10/2009 12:26 AM, Dennis J. wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I just upgraded my F11 virt-tools using the repository that contains the
>>> rawhide versions for Fedora 11. This seems to work well but apparently I
>>> can no longer see the hardware details of the VMs nor can I add hardware
>>> like e.g. storage like i could in the regular F11 version of
>>> virt-manager.
>>> Is this an intended change?
>>
>> Hm, i just noticed that I get access to the details when I start
>> virt-manager as root but not when I start it from the menu as a regular
>> user. Is this intended behaviour and if so is it possible to give a
>> regular user full access to all of virt-manager?
> 
> Er, I just saw that the toolbar option defaulted to "off" for the regular 
> user and activating it surely made the details available.
> 
> I guess that's my cue to stop working already and go to bed :)
> 
> It would probably be a good idea though to add the "details" entry to the 
> "Virtual Machine" menu so that is accessible with deactivated toolbar. The 
> Run, Pause and Shutdown buttons are available from the menu too after all.

Yes, that was an oversight and needs to be fixed. Thanks for reporting!

- Cole




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