On 2023-10-27 at 10:46, Minecraftchest1 wrote: > With Virt-Manager, you should have the option to choose an existing > disk image.
That only helps if you've already created a disk image, which will not be the case when creating a new VM from scratch. Having to resort to the command line (or to other tools) to create the initial disk image - even if, potentially, just creating an empty file (or a file of specified size, filled with zeroes) would work - is not as friendly or as straightforward a workflow as being able to do it from the GUI. > In that dialog, you can create an image in any of the pools (you can > also add pools in that dialog), and that will let you change the file > name and disk size. Hold up. Where do "pools" (which I'm guessing is short for "storage pools") come into things? The other virtualization solutions I've seen and worked with (short of full-system-level things, such as I understand VMWare ESXi to be) don't require being aware of or handling storage pools; they work with disk image files (or, for the case of hierarchical snapshots, cascading stacks thereof) directly, and do not require those files to be part of any "storage pool" in any way that the user needs to be aware of. If you're starting with the assumption that "storage pools" will - much less need to - be involved somewhere, you're already not matching the convenience etc. of the workflow I know from those other tools. Just offhand, I would expect that a "storage pools" paradigm would block off some of the convenient things that can be done in that other workflow, such as being able to move or copy a virtual machine by moving or copying the directory that its files (disk images, configuration files, et cetera) are stored in - because you'd also have to fiddle with whatever it is that defines the "storage pool" that those files are part of, and that definition would presumably be outside of the directory that defines the virtual machine. > I am not ay my laptop currently, but I can take and share some > screenshots later today. Regardless of the above, that might be useful. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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