[Kimchi-devel] [RFC] UI: Support Selecting SCSI Volume when Creating a VM

[Aline Manera]

On 02/24/2014 10:45 AM, Aline Manera wrote:
> On 02/24/2014 07:34 AM, Hongliang Wang wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Royce talked this topic with me today that the UI part is missing for 
>> SCSI volume selecting when creating a VM. In the current design, VM 
>> is created through a template and no extra options are available at 
>> VM creation: template defines which pool and disk size, and Kimchi 
>> will create a volume in the pool with specified disk size for the VM. 
>> Though SCSI volumes are read-only and we can't create anything in 
>> SCSI pool, we need allow user to select a volume in SCSI pool. So my 
>> initial suggestion to the VM creation UI looks like:
>>
>> /// --- Create VM Window   --- ///
>>
>> 1. Virtual Machine Name
>> The name used to identify the virtual machine. If omitted, a name 
>> will be chosen based on the template used.
>> [ Text box here to enter VM name ]
>>
>> 2. Template
>> Please choose a template.
>> [ Templates list here to be selected ]
>>
>> 3. Volumes (this part will be only available when SCSI pool is 
>> selected in Step 2)
>> [ Volumes list in SCSI pool to be selected ]
>>
>> ///  Create  ///
>>
>>
>> Does this make sense? If so, I'll send out patches for it.
>>
>>
>
> It makes sense for me. Go ahead with the patches! =)

It also applied to iSCSI storage pools

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