Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 351681
[RFE] deleting machine should remove diskfile
Last modified: 2009-09-14 11:38:17 EDT
Description of problem: It would be nice if virt-manager also removed or at least offered to remove the diskfile when deleting a vm, so that old stale vm diskfiles are not left lying around.
Created attachment 289121 [details] patch for deleting img files when deleting machine (optional choice)
This is not very pleasant UI - you get shown 2 separate dialog boxes when deleting, and the deleting of disk images is all-or-nothing. The latter doesn't work when a VM has 2 disk images, one private, the other shared across several VMs (eg for CluterSuite quorum partitions); Similarly if the guest has an ISO image attached for virtual CDROM you don't want to delete that. This really needs just a single confirmation dialog box for deleting a VM, and in that dialog a list of all disk images which checkboxes to select which should be deleted. It should list the disk size, and whether its readonly/shared.
Created attachment 289131 [details] sry. typo in previous patch :)
Daniel: hm, ok. I can try do it when I will have a time.
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(Haven't tried yet on rawhide yet BTW since I can't install guests there yet.)
The disk-files still don't get deleted when deleting a virtual machine. There is no question to do so, neither is there an option.
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As mentioned above, we need some intelligent UI to get this right. We _still_ don't have this upstream though, but it is at the top of my list. Moving to F10 since it is still applicable there.
A simple start would just be to popup a dialog asking if you want to delete the disk image too locally.
(In reply to comment #10) > A simple start would just be to popup a dialog asking if you want to delete the > disk image too locally. Jens, I don't think that it is good idea to have this simple version of dialog. You could have many "disk images" in your virtual machine and not everytime you want to delete all images. So you have to have list with checkboxes (or something similar).
Upstream now has a robust 'Delete VM' dialog which allows removing storage, providing enough info for the user to make a reasonable decision about what to remove. Moving to POST. http://hg.et.redhat.com/cgi-bin/hg-virt.cgi/applications/virt-manager--devel/rev/f8ad3d826039 The pending new virt-manager version will probably end up in F10, but likely not for a good while (maybe F11 release time frame.)
I think it's too late to be backporting a major virt-manager version to F10, so moving this bug F11 (where it is fixed) and closing as CURRENTRELEASE.