617391 – 'connection' dropdown is very confusing if you have remote hypervisor access via ssh key

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Bug 617391 - 'connection' dropdown is very confusing if you have remote hypervisor access via ssh key

Summary: 'connection' dropdown is very confusing if you have remote hypervisor access ...

Keywords:
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA
Alias:	None
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	virt-manager
Sub Component:
Version:	6.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Priority:	low
Severity:	medium
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Assignee:	Cole Robinson
QA Contact:	Virtualization Bugs
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URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+	depends on / blocked

Reported:	2010-07-22 22:02 UTC by Máirín Duffy
Modified:	2011-05-19 13:46 UTC (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)
Fixed In Version:
Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed:	2011-05-19 13:46:28 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

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screenshot of the dropdown in question (22.31 KB, image/png) 2010-07-22 22:02 UTC, Máirín Duffy	no flags	Details
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System	ID	Private	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHBA-2011:0637	0	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	virt-manager bug fix and enhancement update	2011-05-18 17:55:47 UTC

Description Máirín Duffy 2010-07-22 22:02:14 UTC

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

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2010-07-22 22:37:41 UTC

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. **

Comment 3 Cole Robinson 2010-08-24 19:51:15 UTC

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.

Comment 4 Ray Strode [halfline] 2010-08-24 20:10:53 UTC

Hi Cole,

That reworking of the UI looks much better than the one I posted a screesnhot of!! Thanks :)

Comment 5 Máirín Duffy 2010-08-24 20:16:13 UTC

Whoops sorry, that was me. Ray borrowed my laptop when his laptop's backlight broke.

Comment 6 Cole Robinson 2011-01-14 22:21:11 UTC

Fixed in virt-manager-0.8.6-1.el6

Comment 8 zhanghaiyan 2011-03-02 05:49:35 UTC

Verified this bug with virt-manager-0.8.6-2.el6.noarch

The dialog looks the same with in comments

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2011-05-19 13:46:28 UTC

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

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