[Engine-devel] adding a second disk to a new VM
When creating new VM, you are asked if you want to add a virtual disk. If you do, you are asked if you want to add another. The issue is that while the first disk is being added, the VM is locked so unless the first disk is added very quickly, a second disk cannot be added and the user will get an error saying that the VM is not down. I think user may find this confusing and/or annoying. Is there anything that can be done to improve this experience?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Choate" <jchoate@redhat.com> Sent: Friday, February 3, 2012 4:41:44 PM
When creating new VM, you are asked if you want to add a virtual disk. If you do, you are asked if you want to add another. The issue is that while the first disk is being added, the VM is locked so unless the first disk is added very quickly, a second disk cannot be added and the user will get an error saying that the VM is not down. I think user may find this confusing and/or annoying. Is there anything that can be done to improve this experience?
Currently, the "Guide Me" dialog isn't being dynamically updated according to the relevant business entity status; i.e. you would want the "add another disk" button in the dialog to be disabled as long as the VM is in the "Image Locked" status, but once the VM becomes "Down", you would want the "add another disk" button to become enabled; currently, it is not the case and the "add another disk" button is simply always enabled. We have https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692450 on that. We are still not sure regarding the exact behavior improvement that we would like to introduce here.
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On 03/02/12 20:13, Einav Cohen wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Choate" <jchoate@redhat.com> Sent: Friday, February 3, 2012 4:41:44 PM
When creating new VM, you are asked if you want to add a virtual disk. If you do, you are asked if you want to add another. The issue is that while the first disk is being added, the VM is locked so unless the first disk is added very quickly, a second disk cannot be added and the user will get an error saying that the VM is not down. I think user may find this confusing and/or annoying. Is there anything that can be done to improve this experience?
Currently, the "Guide Me" dialog isn't being dynamically updated according to the relevant business entity status; i.e. you would want the "add another disk" button in the dialog to be disabled as long as the VM is in the "Image Locked" status, but once the VM becomes "Down", you would want the "add another disk" button to become enabled; currently, it is not the case and the "add another disk" button is simply always enabled. We have https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692450 on that. We are still not sure regarding the exact behavior improvement that we would like to introduce here.
We plan that add disk won't lock the whole VM but only the VM disk, so adding another disk (simultaneously) should be supported very soon.
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