First a big sorry for my incredible delay. Unfortunately I had to deal with some family
issues, some work related crisis interventions, and nevertheless keep up the work of the
server WG.
Am 02.02.2022 um 18:03 schrieb Katerina Koukiou
<kkoukiou(a)redhat.com>:
My cockpit installation did not have the "Virtual Machines" menu option
nor did I have the option to install cockpit modules. I could initially
only remove installed modules. Coming back to this days later, I now see
all cockpit modules, with the ability to install those I don't have. Is
this a known issue or have I done this wrong?
I am suspecting you are facing this issue
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/issues/16128
I saw that issue earlier at various times but couldn't reliable reproduce. Now, with
my F35 test machines running cockpit-machines 260, I have not encountered this problem,
despite multiple attempts.
The issue is not closed. Is it worthwhile to mention in a side note that, as a result of a
bug, the list is sometimes not displayed and you should try again?
The _images/virtualization-vm-install-fedoraserver-cockpit-020.png
image
does not match the form I get on F35. I have a "Connection" option which
gives me the choice between "System" and "Session". This is not
reflected in the image.
There are cases where 'Session' connection is not available, for example when
logged in to cockpit as root.
Indeed, I was logged in as root when I made the
screenshot.
I wanted to find out what the session option exactly does and tried to find a
documentation of the cockpit-machines module, without success. Did I overlooked it on the
Cockpit project site or is there currently no documentation?
(And I’m in the process to add documentation to install cloud images and looking for
documentation how the module deals with cloud-init, with ignition, and with plain VMs. Or
is the only way so far to reconstruct it by trial and error?)
The documentation later states "After a test of the installation
media
the well known installation process begins. You may select Expand at the
right top to increase readability". In my case, I HAD to click on
'Expand' for the VNC console to register my keystrokes.
There is an open issue about this,
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit-machines/issues/29
I’m unsure how to handle that in the documentation here. What would be a better and more
adequate wording?
Hope this helps,
Katerina
thanks, helped me a lot. Documentation is sometimes harder (at least for
me) as writing my scientific research reports. :-)
In the "Optional post-installation tasks" section, the
first task is
titled "Get rid of nano as default editor". I feel "Making vim the
default editor" better reflects the contents of this section. I would
also recommend replacing the command by "dnf install --allowerasing
vim-default-editor" which simplifies the task.
Regards,
Emmanuel
Yes, very much agreed!
I already pushed the modification to stg. Should be visible in about an hour at the
latest.
Best
Peter