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2009-09-29T03:17:35.211-04:00

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In step 3, while I think it makes sense to allow t...

2009-03-03T19:05:00.000-05:00

In step 3, while I think it makes sense to allow the cpus to max out to what is physically available, as you state in the text below the screenshot, there are times that you want more because the VM is to be deployed elsewhere. Why don't you include verbage to reflect that - for it will reduce any questions.

Are there plans to provide a hover-over-help-bubble for some of the options?

Gianluca:

OS Type / Variant tells virt-mana...

2009-03-02T19:21:00.000-05:00

Gianluca:

OS Type / Variant tells virt-manager a lot of info: whether we can enable virtio on KVM (yields much better performance), pointer devices (windows and Fedora 11 support a tablet mouse out of the box, which tracks 1-for-1 in the vnc window), and some lower level stuff like clock type, default ACPI and APIC settings, etc.

Going forward, it will only be used to associate more info, so I'd recommend making use of it as much as possible.

We are also looking into doing distro auto-detection of the install media (currently working for most Red Hat based distros if installing off a URL), so this should be automatic in the future.

Bob (re disk space):

I think that's a good ...

2009-03-02T19:15:00.000-05:00

Bob (re disk space):

I think that's a good idea, I know Parallels and VMWare Workstation provide similar recommendations. It would just require a concerted effort to round up all that information.

One of the things that we plan to address going forward is having more fine grained and info rich OS Type / Variant data, which is where disk size / ram recommendations would live.

Giulivo:

Where the XML file is stored shoul...

2009-03-02T19:13:00.000-05:00

Giulivo:

Where the XML file is stored should really never be relevant to a libvirt user. This seems to be a really common misconception.

Libvirt provides a mechanism to edit and apply changes to a VM configuration: via virsh, these are the 'edit' and 'define' commands ('edit' is really a wrapper around 'dumpxml' and 'define')

Editting a VM config in place where libvirt stores them (/etc/libvirt/...) has a large potential for problems: any syntax errors and libvirt won't be able to warn you of them, things will suddenly just start going wrong, and the VM won't show up if libvirtd is restarted.

Different operating systems expect different hardw...

2009-03-02T18:37:00.000-05:00

Different operating systems expect different hardware devices at installation time. Some of these can have very complex requirements. I don't understand or appreciate all the differences myself but VMWare, for example, has prebuilt virtual machine choices for all the common operating systems.

One thing I never really understood is how choosin...

2009-03-02T16:00:00.000-05:00

One thing I never really understood is how choosing OS Type and Version affects the the VM configuration. Are those really needed?

The screens look great. I can't think of any OS sp...

2009-03-02T06:31:00.000-05:00

The screens look great. I can't think of any OS specific options that might be needed here. I'm wondering if providing more information about possible disk space allocations for the new VM makes sense. For example if the user wants to create an F11 virtual machine, that needs a minimum total amount of disk space, and the minimum could be mentioned in some way. Overall your redesigned screens look great to me.

it would be nice to show at the fifth step, in the...

2009-03-02T06:06:00.000-05:00

it would be nice to show at the fifth step, in the summary section, an indication of where the xml file reflecting the configuration will be saved ... to let the people know where to search (in case they want) for further details and manual changes

FYI, in Fedora 11, KVM will now support the memory...

2009-03-02T03:52:00.000-05:00

FYI, in Fedora 11, KVM will now support the memory balloon VirtIO device. I've done some work to hook this up in libvirt, so the memory vs max-memory limits will soon work for both Xen and KVM. You are correct though, that this isn't soo important for the initial install - just allocate the amount of RAM actually needed for install & its easy to increase the maxmem post-install if desired.

Revamping the 'Add Virtual Network' wizard is comi...

2009-02-28T11:52:00.000-05:00

Revamping the 'Add Virtual Network' wizard is coming at some point, which will give the option to create a routed network.

Also, comments fixed now (was some broken custom changes I made). Thanks for the heads up.

hi, looks really good except that i still miss vir...

2009-02-28T11:22:00.000-05:00

hi, looks really good except that i still miss virt-manager supporting routed networking.

ps, commenting does not work properly in your blog which is weird.