[Kimchi-devel] Guest disk: Allocate storage volume when attaching disk to vm

[Aline Manera]

Adding Samuel and Andre to this discussion and also forward to Kimchi ML.

On 16/11/2015 14:21, Aline Manera wrote:
>
> Hi Socorro,
>
> On 12/11/2015 21:20, Socorro Stoppler wrote:
>> Hi Aline,
>>
>> I chatted w/Paulo about the UI portion of this.  He stated that the 
>> user has the option to select to add a new volume (in which the the 
>> UI must execute two requests: one to create a volume, and other to 
>> attach the new volume to the guest being edited). So in this screen 
>> (I know it's the old UI but this shows better than current new UI :)):
>>
>>
>>
>> What do you think of 3.  being radio buttons?  -
>
> I think 2 should be that radio buttons.
>
> So:
>
> 1. Device type
>     <disk>
>
> 2. ( ) Create a new disk image
>
>     ( ) Select existing disk image
>
> 3. Storage pool
>     <pools>
>
> 4. Capacity or Volume (depends on selection on 2.)
>
> Below is how virt-manage does it.
>
>
>
>>     <New Volume> -
>>         Volume: Storage volume name of 'new_vol' --- we prob do not 
>> need to show this in the UI, right?
>>         Capacity:  in bytes
>>         Format:  qcow2 -- is this the only option we want to provide?
>>         <Create Button>
>>
>>     <Existing Volume> - which consists of current combobox above
>>
>> Also, if user selects to do the new volume, then created it, but 
>> decided that they didn't want to attach it, is that ok?  Not sure of 
>> the different scenarios we have
>> or if I'm totally missing the intent here.
>>
>> Let me know if you had envisioned something else for this UI.
>>
>> Thanks
>> -Socorro
>>
>>
>

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