On 12/19/2016 06:13 PM, Eva Star wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Will be issue with a lot of virtual machines fixed at new Qubes
> Manager at Q4.0?
>
> Now it's not possible to use QM if there are too much VM created at
> the list (hide by the monitor height, no scroll, and it's hard to
> search for VMs if 2-3 created for some one task.
>
> I'm about groups and _sub-groups_ for virtual machines (like folders
> on the disk.
> + setting for group to setup default state:collapse or expand after
> boot or remember last choose)
>
>
> It will be comfortable to group them and hide not every day used VMs.
> See example, it's hard to describe:
>
>
> -system group (collapse by default)
> -- sys-net
> -- sys-firewall
> -- sys-usb
>
> -entertainment (group, EXPAND by default)
> --videovm
> --browser-mail-every-day
> --etc
>
> -profiles-storage (group, collapsed)
> --sub-gropup-person (sub-group)
> --- personal-browser-vm
> --- personal-proxy-vm
> --- personal-othe-task-vm
> --sub-gropup2-person2 (sub-group2)
> --- personal-browser-vm
> --- personal-proxy-vm
> --- personal-othe-task-vm
> --sub-gropup3-person3 (sub-group3)
> --- personal-browser-vm
> --- personal-proxy-vm
> --- personal-othe-task-vm
>
>
> -development (
> --some-official-work
> --development-some-other-work
> --site1-admin
> --site2-admin
>
> -templates (group, collapsed)
> --template1
> --template2
> --template3
>
> -proxies(group, collapsed)
> --proxy1
> --proxy2
>
> etc.
>

Tags might be a better solution, since they are not limited to
hierarchical representation. You could have VMs that occupy multiple
'groups'. The UI could have display toggle buttons for specific
tags--easy to implement and very flexible.

Chris