Re: Various Questions About Boxes

["Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak gnome org>]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Gerald Nunn <gerald b nunn gmail com> wrote:
> I can understand where you are coming from, however from time to time users
> may need to use virsh or virt-manager to accomplish more advanced tasks then
> what boxes allows,

Sure but usually its to work around some issues. At Boxes BoF during
GUADEC recently, we briefly discussed the need for an advanced options
UI so that users don't have to resort to virt-manager or virsh but we
(those who were present at the BoF) failed to come up with a single
valid use case for adding an advanced settings UI of sorts, other than
working around issues that typically are temporary.

> for example adding hardware to the VM in virt-manager.

Yeah, there could be need for those for sure but we need to decide
about each hardware separately so if you could provide a list of
hardware options you need to tweak, we could look into if and how we
can support that in Boxes.

> However by no means do I consider this a high priority, just a nice to have.
> If it's not currently possible that's fine and it's no big deal. Thanks very
> much for the reply, appreciate it.

If you are talking about renaming of underlying image, I'm sorry but I
don't think we'll ever support that. Exporting of VMs is something I
already started working on and I really hope I can get it working in
3.16.

> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
> <zeeshanak gnome org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Lasse Schuirmann
> > <lasse schuirmann gmail com> wrote:
> > > Forget CCing the list every time...
> > >
> > > 2014-09-18 18:03 GMT+02:00 Lasse Schuirmann
> > > <lasse schuirmann gmail com>:
> > > > Am 17.09.2014 18:57 schrieb "Gerald Nunn" <gerald b nunn gmail com>:
> > > > > I've switched to gnome-boxes from virtualbox in order to learn more
> > > > > about
> > > > > qemu/kvm and have some specific questions about Boxes as follows. Note
> > > > > I'm
> > > > > using boxes on Arch with gnome 3.12
> > > >
> > > > Great. Then youll geht 3.14 soon.
> > > >
> > > > > a. When I imported my Windows VM from VirtualBox, it saved the image
> > > > > as
> > > > > "boxes-unknown", is there a way to change the name to something more
> > > > > obvious?
> > > >
> > > > In the properties you should be able to just click on the name and then
> > > > change it. In 3.14 you will be able to click the top bar and do it
> > > > there if
> > > > zeenix didn't change it again.
> >
> > Thats the way to change the title of the box. Gerald was talking about
> > the name of the underlying disk image. The answer is no, Boxes doesn't
> > provide any means to do that and it really shouldn't as thats a detail
> > that you (as user) should not need be exposed to.
> >
> > Currently the only valid use case (actually its work around) for
> > looking into that image is to be able to export the image as we
> > currently don't have means to export it for you in the UI. Still, you
> > shouldn't need to care about its name as you can name the destination
> > image anything you like when you copy it somewhere.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> >
> > Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
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