Improve Feedback When Creating VM with Mulitple XOSTORE Virtual Disks

[evoelise]

Creating a new VM with multiple XOSTOR disks creates the disks sequentially and this can take a long time - whilst it is doing this XO remains "frozen" and no feedback is given - it can look like the VM creation has locked up to the user.

Would it be possible to create the disks concurrently to speed this up?

Would it be possible to provide some progress and/or feedback to the user as it creates the disks so the user is informed of what is being done and does not think the VM creation has "hung"?

[Wescoeur]

Would it be possible to create the disks concurrently to speed this up?

The SMAPI actions for this driver and the others are executed sequentially to ensure coherency, it's not easy to remove this limitation. Short-term answer: no.

Would it be possible to provide some progress and/or feedback to the user as it creates the disks so the user is informed of what is being done and does not think the VM creation has "hung"?

I'm not sure to understand the "frozen" state which you are talking about, normally an XO task should be created. Could you be more precise? Thank you. :slightly_smiling_face:

[evoelise]

I'm not sure to understand the "frozen" state which you are talking about, normally an XO task should be created. Could you be more precise?

When a new VM is created in XO, after the "Create" button is pressed the create page, shows a spinning animation on the Create button and waits until the VM has been created and then it redirects to the page for the newly created VM.

Whilst there is a job created a user will normally just be waiting on the Create VM page until redirected to the VM page once it has been created. If this takes a long time it can look like the VM creation has locked up or frozen.

HTH