Bug 1193303

Summary:	RFE: group nodes into groups
Product:	[Community] Virtualization Tools	Reporter:	Fred van Zwieten <fvzwieten>
Component:	virt-manager	Assignee:	Cole Robinson <crobinso>
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Description Fred van Zwieten 2015-02-17 06:34:21 UTC

Description of problem:
When having more than a hand full of guests in virt-manager is becomes cumbersome to find the right guest. The sorting is based on alphabet which is not appropriate for all use cases. For example I name my guests after their FQDN and would like to group them by there domain.

I propose to introduce some grouping construct for guests. Options are:
1. Single level grouping
2. multilevel grouping
3. tagging, giving the possibility to have multiple viewpoints

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Comment 2 Giuseppe Scrivano 2015-02-24 13:04:41 UTC

this requires some UI design as it is going to affect the main window.  I am going to move this request upstream.

Comment 3 Cole Robinson 2015-03-24 23:21:19 UTC

We've made an explicit design decision with virt-manager to not target large numbers of VMs, so this grouping feature isn't something we want to implement.

gtk has built in tree searching, try using ctrl+f to find the VM name you want, or kick off operations using virsh instead.