Re: [fedora-virt] defaults and image file names
On 11/29/2014 11:18 AM, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
A number of defaults seem to have changed with virt-manager-1.1.0
including
the number of CPUs, the amount of memory, the size for the virtual disk
image, and the name of the virtual disk image file.
I am happy that the CPU and memory sizes increased and, fortunately, they
values chosen were the ones i was entering each time. Also, the size of the
disk file image has increased to 20GB and this is a value I am not happy
with. This is probably an RFE in which case I will BZ it, but it should would
be nice if, under preferences, I could specify the numbers to be used as
defaults for CPUs, memory size, and disk size.
Those defaults are coming from libosinfo now, hence the change. So if
installing Fedora, 20GB is the recommended disk size, and I believe that comes
from official Fedora docs. Of course a smaller disk is possible if you do a
minimal install and very little
An then there is the name used for the virtual disk file. Previously,
the name
of the virtual system was used and it was pretty easy to determine what image
was associate with what virtual system. Now, the type and version of the
installed OS is being used as the base name for the image file. Now, I have
to use the storage connection details to figure out usage.
Hmm. The disk image name is supposed to match the name of the VM, and the
defualt VM name was changed to match the chosen OS. There might be a bug here
where we don't change the generated disk image name if the user changes the VM
name from the default. Please file a virt-manager bug, with full steps to
reproduce, and virt-manager --debug output when reproducing.
Also, when I delete a system, I expect the associated disk image to
be deleted
... sometimes it is and sometimes it is not???
It should always suggest to delete the VM disk image. Please file a bug with
virt-manager --debug output when reproducing, as well as a description of what
the delete dialog is showing when you try to delete.
Thanks,
Cole
I believe that name stuff and deleton should be configurable!.
I am sure there are sound reasons why the changes were made but I am not happy
with all the changes.
Gene