Bug 617391
| Summary: | 'connection' dropdown is very confusing if you have remote hypervisor access via ssh key | ||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | Máirín Duffy <duffy> | ||||
| Component: | virt-manager | Assignee: | Cole Robinson <crobinso> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||
| Version: | 6.0 | CC: | dallan, rstrode, xen-maint, yoyzhang | ||||
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | RHELNAK | ||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2011-05-19 13:46:28 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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This issue has been proposed when we are only considering blocker issues in the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux release. ** If you would still like this issue considered for the current release, ask your support representative to file as a blocker on your behalf. Otherwise ask that it be considered for the next Red Hat Enterprise Linux release. ** Yeah, that dialog hasn't seen a lot of love over the years and is pretty ugly. There have been numerous complaints about the lack of $USER transparency. I've reworked this dialog upstream: http://fedorapeople.org/~crobinso/tmp/vmm-addconn1.png http://fedorapeople.org/~crobinso/tmp/vmm-addconn2.png Hopefully it should solve some of the issues you were hitting. Feedback appreciated. Hi Cole, That reworking of the UI looks much better than the one I posted a screesnhot of!! Thanks :) Whoops sorry, that was me. Ray borrowed my laptop when his laptop's backlight broke. Fixed in virt-manager-0.8.6-1.el6 Verified this bug with virt-manager-0.8.6-2.el6.noarch The dialog looks the same with in comments An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0637.html |
Created attachment 433819 [details] screenshot of the dropdown in question Description of problem: i'm not a super-technical user but i can usually hold my own. i needed to connect to a remote hypervisor for which i only have access to the root account via ssh key. look at the attached screenshot of the 'connection' dropdoown of the 'add connection' dialog. which option would you have picked in the dropdown? i certainly wasn't sure. (in the end, ssh tunnel was the option that worked, which wasn't very intuitive to me) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): virt-manager-0.8.4-7.el6.noarch