Bug 798949

Summary: RFE: Allow to give VM comment and show it in manager list, possibly libvirt's <title> attribute
Product: [Community] Virtualization Tools Reporter: Tim Niemueller <tim>
Component: virt-managerAssignee: Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan>
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Description Tim Niemueller 2012-03-01 11:00:43 UTC 
In the virt-manager GUI's main view there is a sorted list of VMs. Each has its VM name written in bold. Typically the VM name is the short hostname. What would be really helpful would be support for a comment field which allows to give a little info about the host.

Example:
  *hostname* (mail server)
  Status

  *hostname2* (web server, SELinux exceptions)
  Status

So a free text comment line would be presented in normal font weight after the bold hostname. I could even imaging swapping the status and the comment.
Comment 1 Cole Robinson 2012-03-02 16:13:25 UTC 
Libvirt has a new 'title' attribute that might help here:

http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=b79ba8382e2205c416d7c4836ac9ee08c72e2c56
Comment 2 Giuseppe Scrivano 2013-09-11 08:27:33 UTC 
patch proposed upstream:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/virt-tools-list/2013-September/msg00047.html