[virt-tools-list] [PATCH virt-manager] details: show warning when guest inspection is not available

Giuseppe Scrivano gscrivan at redhat.com
Tue Nov 26 15:23:13 UTC 2013


Cole Robinson <crobinso at redhat.com> writes:

> On 11/25/2013 10:57 AM, Giuseppe Scrivano wrote:
>> If libguestfs is not available and the guest cannot be inspected, show
>> a warning instead and hide the "Operating System" and "Applications"
>> frames.
>> 
>> Closes: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755869
>> 
>
> Right now libguestfs inspection typically only works if running virt-manager
> as root which is certainly not common. So I think showing a warning in this
> case is not the best idea since it will be there for the vast majority of
> users. Please drop the warning.

Thanks, I'll drop this part.


> Also, even if the python bindings are available, we may fail to inspect
> anything at all because libguestfs can't access the disk image.. Please ensure
> the UI is hidden in the case when inspection fails like this.

Wouldn't make sense to show these UI elements in case an error happens
but introspection is present?  It will be clear to users that this
feature is supported, but it has failed for other reasons.

Regards,
Giuseppe




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