Ubuntu
virt-manager package

libvirt: pause action is not intuitive

Bug #193464 reported by Jamie Strandboge
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
virt-manager (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

The use of the pause button is not intuitive, especially for people used to vmware's 'suspend guest' functionality. I am not sure how this should be changed, as it is in the documentation-- perhaps a warning telling the user what the purpose of 'pause' is with a check box to not show it again would be appropriate.

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Nick Barcet (nijaba) wrote :

Maybe using "Lock" or "Freeze" instead of "Pause" would better relay the purpose better and lessen confusion?

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Martin Emrich (emme) wrote :

Actually, at least QEMU is capable of saving the VM state to an image file to resume it later, this functionality should IMHO be bound to the Pause button.

Ciao

Martin

Daniel T Chen (crimsun)
Changed in libvirt:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
Chuck Short (zulcss)
Changed in libvirt (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)
affects: libvirt (Ubuntu) → virt-manager (Ubuntu)
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Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) wrote :

I think it is pretty clear that this bug is not going to be fixed in Ubuntu without upstream fixing it. As the reporter, I am closing it for now. The virt-manager help documentation is more clear these days anyway, so this makes sense.

Changed in virt-manager (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Won't Fix
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