We are just mirroring the behavior that virt-manager (and boxes) have
used for a while now.
In my experience the average user is confused by their VMs suspending,
so for our sake I'd rather make people opt into this feature.
The image compression setting has a noticably detrimental effect on
spice graphics quality. It's meant to be used for spice VDI but the
vast majority of people don't use spice in a way that makes bandwidth
usage matter.
Boxes has already done this for a while as well:
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/commits-list/2013-March/msg14904.html
Turn it off by default if creating the VM on a local connection.
We tried to split up status vs XML refreshing, but they are tied together
in various ways (like the runtime XML changes when a VM starts). This
was breaking console connecting when starting a VM
All major drivers either support it, or don't support save at all,
so I think we can safely drop it. If people still need it they can
get by with virsh.
We've had multiple requests over the years for something similar. People
might have to connect to multiple IP addresses, or really large hostnames,
that become difficult to distinguish in the UI.
Add a field in the host details page that allows setting a custom name,
and store it in gsettings.
Unify all the callers, and use some UI ellipsizing to handle
crazy long hostnames.
This drops the conn name collision prevention stuff which can be
useful when you have lots of similar connection names. But upcoming
patches will make it mostly redundant.
We have shipped several releases of RPMs that use gsettings. People
have already rebuilt their settings by hand. Installing the conversion
script could overwrite their latest bits with old gconf bits (this
happened to me).
qemu has provided this feature for a long time, and every other driver
we care about provides a reboot implementation as well, so drop our
handling of it.
There's no external callers anymore, and the prospect of keeping this
stuff cached but potentially having a thread invalidate it makes me nervous,
so simplify things by making callers explicitly request the object they
want to redefine.
Have libvirtobjects advertise a routine specifically for initial setup,
and emit a signal when it's complete. Then dispatch the associated conn
signal on demand as the objects are initialized. This should avoid a
whole class of ordering issues, and is easier to follow IMO.
Cole Robinson