On first run of the app we will check to see if libvirt and qemu
are installed, and if not, offer to install them. In theory anyways.
In practice this stuff breaks repeatedly and is a pain to test because
every desktop has their own API provider with subtly different behavior.
My last round of testing about 12 months ago: apper on KDE was completely
busted and apparently unmaintained (although that may have changed lately),
gnome-software is the latest packagekit provider on gnome and completely
changes the semantics of the API compared to old style gnome-packagekit
that break a lot of virt-manager assumptions.
So I'm tired of it and want it all gone. Still use systemd to try and
check if libvirtd is running, and provide error messages at startup
to guide people.
The new UI is handled in mediacombo. It's a combobox+entry. The
combobox is prepopulated with host cdrom/floppy devices, and
previously used media paths from gsettings
The new VM wizard no longer has separate UI for cdrom device vs
ISO media. The choosecd dialog is gone all together, and media
is changed with the 'apply' button like all other details changes
Allow to set some memory backing options, ex:
--memorybacking access_mode=shared,source_type=anonymous
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
This is just a big nasty commit.
Turn the OS inspection page into an always available page that
shows the libosinfo name from the domain metadata XML. Use oslist.py
and have it absorb more of the common behavior needed by create.py
and details.py. Add UI tests for it all
libvirt will use rtl8139, but the qemu default changed a while
ago to e1000, and libvirt has diverged. e1000 is more modern and
considered the better default here, so use it
Don't rely on libvirt's default. This makes any XML changes more
explicit, and can help other parts of the code that may depend on
a machine type being encoded
Rather than forcing API users to go through the capabilities APIs.
This lets us simplify things in virt-install quite a bit, and is
needed for smarter machine type defaults
I know openstack uses tcp consoles but for end users I've never
really heard about it. RHEL compiles out udp as well. I'm fine telling
users to go to the cli and use virt-xml for this use case.
Use this opportunity to drop a lot of code that only simplified the
case when there are tons of char options we need to consider
This changes all the callers to invoke start_install directly on the
Installer object. We still stash the installer instance inside the
guest object in create.py, just for simplicity
Cole Robinson