[Kimchi-devel] [DISCUSSION] List volumes other than "format=iso" when creating a template #564

[Royce Lv]

On 01/15/2015 07:53 AM, Aline Manera wrote:
>
> On 13/01/2015 15:12, Ramon Medeiros wrote:
>> Hi folks.
>>
>> i want to discuss this bug:
>>
>> https://github.com/kimchi-project/kimchi/issues/564
>>
>> We are being asked to list more than only ISO for template creation, 
>> because libvirt supports other volumes to create a VM.
>>
>
> The problem is: libvirt treats an ISO file as format 'raw' instead of 
> 'iso' for some storage pool types because that those file are not 
> listed for the template creation.
>
> We could scan the file using isoinfo.IsoImage to verify it is an ISO 
> file - but it will take too much time to scan each file.
>
>> My propose is to add a checkbox for select the format, because 
>> showing all supported formats at the first time will pollute the screen.
>>
>
> If user selects to create a template using an ISO file the only 
> support type is ISO.
Shall we enable a user-label function to let users label a storage 
volume as ISO if he knows it is a valid one. And then shallow scan can 
scan volumes with this label for distros, and can present it in template 
creation page?
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