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

Aline Manera alinefm at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Feb 24 13:45:00 UTC 2014


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! =)
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