Willi Burmeister <[email protected]> писал(а) в своём письме Thu, 27 Sep 2012 10:35:59 +0400:
> Hi, > first I would like to say thanks for the long missing group feature. > Here some questions about it's usage and behaviour: > 1. This feature can not be found in the documentation. Why? > The documentation is great, but this feature is completly missing. > 2. Why is it not possible to have empty groups? > You always have to select a VM before creating a group and a group > disappears after the last VM is removed. This is annoying. > 3. How do I remove a VM from a group (GUI)? > Pressing CTRL while dragging a VM adds the VM to another group. That's > great, but how can I remove a VM from a group? I know how to do it on > the CLI. > 4. GUI and CLI are inconsistent in displaying group names. Why? > GUI shows groups as "name" while CLI shows "/name". So if you want > to add a VM to a group you have to type > % VBoxManage modifyvm <VM-name> --groups /<name1>,/<name2> > 5. This feature is moving files and dirs around. Why? > > Adding a VM to a group creates a subfolder below machinefolder and > moves the VM into it. This is confusing and triggers the backup to > save unnecessary old content. > > Try this: > > % VBoxManage modifyvm OpenIndiana --groups /Solaris,/pfsense > > % find . -name OpenIndiana | head -1 > ./Solaris/OpenIndiana > > % VBoxManage modifyvm OpenIndiana --groups /pfsense,/Solaris > > % find . -name OpenIndiana | head -1 > ./pfsense/OpenIndiana > > What's the reason for this? I don't see any benefits in this behaviour. > > > > Thanks again for improving VirtualBox. > > Greetings > > Willi > > P.S. I'm using VirtualBox 4.2.0 on Solaris 11 > > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev Hello Willi. I'd like to answer selectively for few of your questions. 2. - Why is it not possible to have empty groups? - Groups are 'ad hoc' which means the fact 'the group exists or not' depends on VMs it contains. If there is some VM in some group - there is a group; if there is no VMs in some group - there is no group. So, in current implementation groups are exists only if contains VM(s). 3. - How do I remove a VM from a group (GUI)? - You can move out VM from group by drag&drop this VM out of that group. You can remove VM fully using the context menu / 'remove' action. - Pressing CTRL while dragging a VM adds the VM to another group. - Yes, thats a way to have VM more in one group if necessary. 4. - GUI and CLI are inconsistent in displaying group names. Why? GUI shows groups as "name" while CLI shows "/name". - Reflecting group names as "/name" in GUI was decided as 'unfriendly' (users feedback), so we decided to reflect if the way it is now. -- With Best Regards, [Oracle/VirtualBox] Sergey Dubov _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
