On Sun, Sep 1, 2019 at 2:09 PM George Kirkham <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I am new to using Cockpit. When I created a virtual machine I found the 
> following issues;

Hi George,

Thanks for using cockpit!

>
> 1) I cannot find a way to add another network device.

This feature was missing, I will be probably included in the release
two weeks from today, since skobyda just sent a PR about this today.
See https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/12711

>
> 2) I cannot find a way to manage (view, add/remove) the sound device (so 
> fundamental).

This feature is missing as well. We will happily add it in our todo
list, or if you want to contribute to the project I will gladly guide
you into the implementation.

>
> 3) I cannot find a way to manage (view, add/remove) the video device (so 
> fundamental).

Same as sound devices.

>
> 4) I cannot find a way to manage (view, add/remove), well any of the virtual 
> hardware devices other than a hard disk drive storage device (the network 
> device can be modified, the cdrom, if one exists can be removed but not 
> re-added).

Well spotted. None asked for these features yet, but keep in mind that
VM page in cockpit is under heavy development, and a lot of features
are about to be released soon. I have noted down your requests, but
you can also create issues on our GitHub repository
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/issues so that we can track
better you RFEs.

>
> 5) In  "Networking" I can add a bridge (this functionality has been removed 
> from Virt-Manager due to the effort to maintain the code), but the bridge is 
> not available in Virtual Machines to be attached to a network device. This is 
> kind of fundamental, or a basic concept, I am so confused why not. I can use 
> virsh to add it, but that is not the point, the UI if it is going to create 
> the bridge, should then add it to the list of virtual devices, or all the 
> user to do so. Virt-Manager used to do this, until bridge creation was 
> removed.

You can create a Virtual Network using this bridge and then change the
NIC source to use that Virtual Network.

>
> 6) Sometimes the virtual cdrom device is available, sometime times it is not 
> visible. It can only be added when the VM is created, after which you can 
> remove it, but you can never attach another dvd/cdrom ISO, or reattach 
> another virtual cdrom drive.

This is missing indeed. Please create an RFE.

>
> 7) there is no way to add a floppy disk drive. A floppy disk drive can be 
> useful for installing specific drivers that can be loaded using floppy disks 
> during the OS installation. For example, virtio drivers for when creating a 
> Windows 10 virtual machine.
>
> 8) At first there were 0 Storage Pools, but after creating the VM there were 
> then 2 Storage Pools. I found this a little confusing at the beginning, but 
> did not stop me from creating a VM.

So basically when you are creating a VM for first time, there is the
case that you don't have any storage pools configured. We use
'virt-install' script to create VMs, and that will create a Storage
Pool for the destination of the VM disk.
>
> I wonder if I am doing something incorrectly?

Most of the operations you tried to do are currently not supported
unfortunately - but definitely will be implemented in the near future.
So stay tuned and in case you are interested to help with the
implementation of some feature just come on #cockpit channel on
freenode and I will help you get started.

Cheers,
Katerina

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