I like option 3. If you can admin a vmhost you should be able to see what VMs are assigned to it. Having the VMs that are assigned, but for which you don't have admin access displayed in a separate area is a good idea. If you need to remove it you should be able to coordinate with the person that does have admin access.
Mike Waldron Systems Specialist ITS Research Computing University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CB #3420, ITS Manning, Rm 2509 919-962-9778 ________________________________________ From: Josh Thompson [josh_thomp...@ncsu.edu] Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 2:47 PM To: vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: VCL-400 managing VMs on vmhosts -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm working on JIRA issue VCL-400. It is to change the list of unassigned VMs for a vmhost to only display VMs that the user has administer access to instead of all unassigned VMs. The way the page currently works is that you can see any vmhosts you have administer access to. Then, you can see any VMs assigned to that host and any VMs unassigned to that host, regardless of whether or not you have administer access to those VMs (both assigned and unassigned). Unassigned VMs that you don't have access to should not show up in the list - that's pretty clear and is what VCL-400 addresses. However, the question arises of whether or not VMs that you don't have access to should show up in the assigned VMs list, meaning you have administer access to the vmhost but not administer access to a VM assigned to it. So, I'm wondering what other people think: (1)-Should you be able to remove a VM from a vmhost when you have administer access to the host but not to the VM? (2)-If so, once you remove it, it shouldn't later appear in the unassigned list because you don't have access to it. So, it's kind of like it just disappears. How should that be handled? Maybe a warning box that pops up saying you won't be able to reassign it if you remove it? (3)-Alternative - Assigned VMs you don't have access to are displayed elsewhere on the page so you know they are on the host, but you aren't given the option of removing them. Keep in mind that you cannot immediately remove a VM that currently has a reservation on it - you can only schedule it to be removed at the end of the reservation. At the moment, I'm okay with either (2) with the warning box or (3). What do others think? Thanks, Josh - -- - ------------------------------- Josh Thompson VCL Developer North Carolina State University my GPG/PGP key can be found at pgp.mit.edu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk6GDsgACgkQV/LQcNdtPQOyKgCffVR5qC1KNCm7js8ACXk+JuS2 64kAmwVj5uLCoDj+GczBFTFGRz5Msot5 =sHKG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----