virt-manager ISO selector is painful in the extreme

Bug #972712 reported by Steve Langasek
12
This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
virt-manager (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

The virt-manager CDROM image selector is far more complicated to use than it should be.

 - when I click 'connect', I have a 'location:' field that I'm not allowed to edit.
 - when I click 'browse' next to it instead, I get some custom widget that doesn't let me browse the filesystem.
 - when I finally click 'browse local', the standard gtk filesystem selector finally pops up, but it *always* drops me into my home directory instead of showing me the most-recently-used directory (i.e., the one I keep all my iso images in).

I think some fixes are badly needed here. I can't figure out what the custom widget in 2) is even for, since nothing except the 'Browse Local' button is clickable. Could we not just point directly at the filesystem browser?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: virt-manager 0.9.1-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-20.33-generic 3.2.12
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 017452a27eca3c8b498abbfa5ef91db9
CheckboxSystem: ecaaad6fa1e0799a0aa1126bf620f39e
Date: Tue Apr 3 11:04:05 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: virt-manager
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2011-11-08 (146 days ago)

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :
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Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur) wrote :

The custom widget in 2 is designed to interrogate libvirt about media pools you have configured. It is mainly used when connecting to a remote libvirt instance on another machine, since presumably that may be where your media is located.

You can either use the Browse Local button, or you can configure your iso directory as a storage pool by selection Edit/Connection Details at the main window, creating a new pool with the + button, and adding your iso directory.

I agree it's pretty cumbersome.

Changed in virt-manager (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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