GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 735329
Provide 'pause' button when connected to display
Last modified: 2016-03-31 13:22:00 UTC
I'm very confused when sometimes when I close boxes it suspends the VM to disk, and sometimes the VM keeps running in the background, hogging my CPU, draining my battery and making my laptop overheat. It would be neat if I could just press a button to suspend the vm to disk (pause it) so I could then disconnect my laptop and go to a meeting without the VM draining my battery in the middle.
(In reply to comment #0) > I'm very confused when sometimes when I close boxes it suspends the VM to disk, > and sometimes the VM keeps running in the background, hogging my CPU, draining > my battery and making my laptop overheat. If the VM keeps running still, its a bug (most likely in libvirt or qemu). > It would be neat if I could just press a button to suspend the vm to disk > (pause it) so I could then disconnect my laptop and go to a meeting without the > VM draining my battery in the middle. There is a 'pause' button in selection mode. :)
I disagree with your classification of this bug as invalid. What I'm asking for is a button to allow me to pause the vm while the VM window is still open, without going back to the main view. It'd be easier to use than selection mode which requires four clicks if you're in the vm screen (one click to come back to the main view, another click to switch to selection mode, another click to select, and another click to pause).
(In reply to comment #2) > I disagree with your classification of this bug as invalid. What I'm asking for > is a button to allow me to pause the vm while the VM window is still open, > without going back to the main view. It'd be easier to use than selection mode > which requires four clicks if you're in the vm screen (one click to come back > to the main view, another click to switch to selection mode, another click to > select, and another click to pause). Ah ok. You didn't specify the specifics in either the summary nor details so I though you just wanted a button that already exists. :)
Its not just about adding a button btw, Boxes is currently not able to handle VM in background if it goes to sleep.
(In reply to comment #4) > Its not just about adding a button btw, Boxes is currently not able to handle > VM in background if it goes to sleep. I think I meant: "background" -> "foreground".
Jimmac, watchya think?
Explicit suspend seems like a valid action. I'll look into it.
Turns out I already had it in the wires :) https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/boxes/wires/properties-modal.png
Elad, rejoice! You can do a lot more than just pause now right from display screen. :) commit: ee52b72f577439ae254f825317f28f073f570a50 display-toolbar: Minor indentation fix commit: 5f5fb18ec065a5235cf1e4cd3ccbed1a72fc3f3a actions-popover: Switch to collection on deletion In the following patch, we'd show this popover in display mode too and it looks really weird if we keep showing the display of the machine that user just deleted. Better switch to collection view just before deleting (from view) it. commit: 67194a05821bee554c5c8116fb9dcd853d07d107 display-toolbar: props button -> box menu button Replace properties button by a menu button that presents the box actions using the new ActionsPopover.