[Kimchi-devel] Kimchi feedback
Aline Manera
alinefm at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Jun 9 16:04:58 UTC 2014
On 06/06/2014 12:11 AM, Royce Lv wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> Thanks for feedback of these issues.
> The issues you mentioned are:
> 1. There is no convenient way to upload a image.
> 2. When image is uploaded, too complex to fix its permission and get
> it work.
> 3. Warning msg disappear too quickly to see.
>
> As 1 and 2 are related to a feature I'm working on, I want to share
> with you our proposal and see if you like it from view of user:
> 1. convenient way to upload image:
> (1) As flow of :
> ISO server--download-->your laptop--upload-->your server
> is too long, we will supply with a dialog to let users to fill a web
> link and kimchi server will downloaded from the ISO server. So the
> flow becomes:
> ISO server--download-->your virtualization server
> number of download sessions will be limited.
>
> (2) An upload interface will also be provided if you want to upload
> ISO from your laptop.
> also number of sessions will be limited
>
> 2. complex permission fix problem:
> A dedicate directory will created for ISOs, and this directory will be
> monitored, if an ISO is scp to this directory, monitor will call a
> script to change permission.
>
> and for 3,
> I think we can add a box to store historical error msg (10 items
> restored), so that user won't miss the latest ones.
>
> Aline,
> If we are good with my proposal, can I add it to the plan of next print?
Royce, you can add all your ideas to our Backlog so we can use it during
the next release plan.
We are in the last sprint before 1.2.1 release, so we should keep focus
on 1.2.1 tasks.
But of course, your ideas are aligned with what we discussed in the last
scrum meeting.
>
> On 2014年06月05日 10:53, Paul Clarke wrote:
>> (Fairly new user of Kimchi, with first impressions)
>>
>> Is there a good location for documentation?
>>
>> It seems difficult to make a new ISO available, or I chose a poor way.
>> - I downloaded from an FTP site requiring non-anonymous authentication
>> - I scp'd it to root at host
>> - I tried to use it from there, but I got permission denied
>> "KCHISO0008E: The hypervisor doesn't have permission to use this ISO
>> /root/..."
>>
>> - the message above recommends copying the file to /var/lib/libvirt,
>> but I think you actually have to copy it to /var/lib/libvirt/images
>>
>> - you also need to "chown qemu" the ISO image
>>
>> After the above steps, it finally became visible and usable.
>>
>> Further feedback:
>> - The above error message appears as a bright pop-over with a nice
>> 'X' for dismissing, but it automatically disappears so quickly, it's
>> impossible to read the entire message
>>
>> - in the "Edit Template" dialog, what is "CPU Number"? I presume that
>> is "number of (virtual) processors"?
>>
>> - in the "Edit Template" dialog, what are the units for "Memory"? It
>> is apparently megabytes, but that should be noted
>>
>> Regards,
>> Paul Clarke, IBM
>>
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