In proxmox VE 2.0 beta 1, in the list of VMs on the side, after each VM number, the VM name was in parenthesis. Now, the VM name isn't there, so I am forced to distinguish between VMs based solely on number. Is this just me, or did you take away this handy feature? Thanks in advance.
Where did the names of the VMs go?
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I see the names just fine on beta2.
After the update my web interface was acting weird, I logged out, cleared my cache then logged back in and things started working correctly.
After the update my web interface was acting weird, I logged out, cleared my cache then logged back in and things started working correctly.
I would like to see a change in naming of VM's so that the actual VM name is displayed first and then the VM number in parenthesizes. That way the naming scheme will sort all my VM's for me in a correct way and it is much easier to manage when you have lots of VM's. I usually use a name scheme where i use my clients domain name like this macer.se_srv01. Is it something that you would consider change for the 2.0 release?
I would also like to see that the UI would use names to reference virtual machines. Names are easier to remember than numbers. Off the top of my head:
1) All the VM and container lists in the main window.
2) Console window - Now I need to check from the main window which VM this console actually belongs to.
3) Backup file names - Virtual machines come and go so it is impossible to remember what certain backup file contains. VM 100 could be totally different than a backup of VM 100 since a while ago. Adding notes/comments to backups would help here also
4) Disk image names - Not as important as previous ones but would make identifying images/logical volumes easier
Naturally this imposes some restrictions to what could be used as VM name (must be a part of file name) but names could go through conversion after VM creation. For example convert VM name all lowercase and replace spaces and other special characters with underscore.
I added the names to the console window now (beta3). I don't really see an advantage of changing the order?
Any chance to get feature like this? I find it quite difficult to track backups with current naming convention after few virtual machines have been created/destroyed. Would it be possible to append vm name to backup name? Notes/comments would be nice also.
How about vzdump puts the name/notes into the backup log file?
Then we could look at the log and know what VM is in the particular backup.
Don't we log that already (not sure)? Anyways, that is by sure possible. Please file a feature request at bugzilla.proxmox.com if you want that.
Bug created: https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=146
I checked my recent backups from 2.0, this data is not currently logged in the log file.
in the past (1.7 i think) i developed a (really simple, i'm a perl beginner, dietmar could have done that so much better than me) patch for vzdump to (optionally) enable that in the backup filename, and worked.
I uploaded that to proxmox team but never ever heard of anything like that... i'm not complaining with the team, they surely had very solid reasons for not use that suggestion. i also stated clearly that i did not want any credit for that, it was like 10 rows of code ...
so i would also like that very much...
Marco
I uploaded that to proxmox team but never ever heard of anything like that... i'm not complaining with the team, they surely had very solid reasons for not use that suggestion. i also stated clearly that i did not want any credit for that, it was like 10 rows of code ...
so i would also like that very much...
Marco