Bug 236785 - RFE: expose disk image type?
Summary: RFE: expose disk image type?
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: virt-manager
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Cole Robinson
QA Contact: Martin Jenner
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 370161 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-04-17 17:09 UTC by Jeremy Katz
Modified: 2009-03-23 22:09 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Enhancement
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Last Closed: 2009-03-23 22:09:43 UTC
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Description Jeremy Katz 2007-04-17 17:09:33 UTC 
Does it make sense to expose somewhat the different types of disk images which
you can create to use with a guest?  While PV guests currently won't work with
anything other than just raw images, that needs fixing anyway...  and FV/qemu
can work nicely with things like qcow/qcow2/vmdk.  And that makes preallocate vs
not just sparse vs preallocated raw image.
Comment 1 Red Hat Bugzilla 2007-07-25 02:08:38 UTC 
change QA contact
Comment 2 Cole Robinson 2008-03-12 19:57:59 UTC 
Dan has already explicity rejected anything exposing the underlying storage
driver in virt-manager. With the libvirt storage api integration on the horizon
though I don't know if this will change. Dan?
Comment 3 Daniel Berrangé 2008-03-13 03:28:54 UTC 
When the storage UI in virt-manager is re-written to support the libvirt storage
API, we will expose the full range of disk formats including qcow/vmdk, etc, so
we should keep this open till that's done.
Comment 4 Cole Robinson 2008-03-15 03:42:17 UTC 
*** Bug 370161 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Jon Stanley 2008-04-23 20:30:48 UTC 
Adding FutureFeature keyword to RFE's.
Comment 6 Cole Robinson 2009-03-10 01:43:53 UTC 
Current upstream now allows provisioning more complex storage (file formats included) on demand via the libvirt storage file browser. Moving to POST.
Comment 7 Cole Robinson 2009-03-23 22:09:43 UTC 
This is in rawhide as of virt-manager-0.7.0-1. Closing as RAWHIDE.
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