[Engine-devel] adding a second disk to a new VM

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On 03/02/12 20:13, Einav Cohen wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jon Choate" <jchoate at 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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