Add snapshotting and cloning of virtual machines to Gnome Boxes
Although a nifty application, Gnome Boxes currently lacks some 'advanced' features like creating snapshots of VMs and cloning VMs. This is a proposal to add both of these features to Gnome Boxes, possibly extending libvirt-glib along the way.
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Schedule
May 19th - June 2nd |
Get comfortable with libvirt(-glib) to the point where cloning can be implemented in code(without any UI additions) |
June 2nd - June 16th |
Mostly UI work regarding cloning of VMs |
June 16th - June 30th |
Make UI and logic work together |
June 30th - July 14th |
Start working on the snapshot creation |
July 14th - July 28th |
Prepare and submit midterm evaluations. Also preparations for the GUADEC talk |
July 28th - August 11th |
Further work on snapshots, including UI changes |
August 11th - August 18th |
Finish the work on snapshots. |
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