improve "add new VM" wizard

[excalibur1234]

i have just started to test aqemu 0.9.1.

i used the big green + button to create a new VM and went through the manual wizard to create a VM. this is great, thank for it! when i was done, i tried to boot my VM, but it did not find a boot device. after a couple of minutes, i figured out that i needed to add a new CD-ROM drive to my VM with a linked .ISO image. then, i can boot the .ISO image and install it onto the boot device (=virtual HDD).

in order to streamline the wizard, i recommend to add an extra page to it, e.g.: "please select an image file to boot from." this page could automatically create a CD-ROM drive (with the selected image file) and set it as boot device. then, people can push the "start" button immediately after the wizard is done.

another point: in the above mentioned wizard, i cannot move a slider to select the amount of RAM i want the VM to have. only the drop down box next to it works. i can however use the slider (in the right hand side GUI --> VM --> Memory) to manually adjust the RAM in VM after the wizard has completed. is this behavior intended?

[tobimensch]

when i was done, i tried to boot my VM, but it did not find a boot device. after a couple of minutes, i figured out that i needed to add a new CD-ROM drive to my VM with a linked .ISO image. then, i can boot the .ISO image and install it onto the boot device (=virtual HDD).

I've been thinking about ways to streamline this as well. The "No boot device found" message box should probably be replaced with a dialog/wizard that guides you. And/-Or it should simply open the "Media" tab.

this page could automatically create a CD-ROM drive (with the selected image file) and set it as boot device. then, people can push the "start" button immediately after the wizard is done.

Maybe. I'm not against the idea. It's not planned to put all possible configurations in the wizard. Then I would have to essentially maintain two UIs that do the same thing. But this might still be a worthwile addition.

another point: in the above mentioned wizard, i cannot move a slider to select the amount of RAM i want the VM to have. only the drop down box next to it works. i can however use the slider (in the right hand side GUI --> VM --> Memory) to manually adjust the RAM in VM after the wizard has completed. is this behavior intended?

I think you may have found a bug! Thanks, will look into it.

And also thanks for testing!

[tobimensch]

another point: in the above mentioned wizard, i cannot move a slider to select the amount of RAM i want the VM to have. only the drop down box next to it works. i can however use the slider (in the right hand side GUI --> VM --> Memory) to manually adjust the RAM in VM after the wizard has completed. is this behavior intended?

I can't reproduce this. The RAM slider works perfectly fine for me in the wizard. Can you make a screenshot/video that shows the issue? Or give me a more detailed description of what goes wrong?