I think you're referring to issue 611. 802 is marked as closed. On 08/12/2016 04:04 PM, Ramon Medeiros wrote:

Propose: Unless has a set of distro isos, use an algorithm to query new ISOs from repositories and display them when creating new templates.

Ways to implement it:

1) Add a script that queries the ISOS everytime we lookup at template list. In the past, we've got a PoC from Cristian Viana, saying that it could take a while (https://github.com/kimchi-project/kimchi/issues/605#issuecomment-78279706).

If you're referring to the remote template dialog then we can try to work something out. However we need to be careful about two things: 1 - Always ask the question "what if the host doesn't have internet access?" when thinking about this feature. Even in the remote template dialog there is a fair use without internet - a remote ISO can be hosted in an isolated network for example. 2 - Don't be shady. We can't connect to Red Hat FTP and search for ISOS without the user knowledge.

2) We can run the script when starting wok, and write the output to a dictonary. The only problem will be servers that did not reboot.

See (2). If you come up with a mechanism (config file is the only one I can think about now) to allow the user to enable this verification in boot time, then I agree. Of course that this verification would be disabled by default because, again, we can't impact the users that aren't interested in this feature.

I would like to have a way that we can run the script in parallel, like refreshing the cache between some periods.