Hi Emmanuel,

I have spent a lot of time the past year on the development of cockpit-machines plugin, so I can help you sort out some issues you mention here.

On Wed, Feb 2, 2022 at 5:50 PM Emmanuel Seyman <emmanuel@seyman.fr> wrote:

Hello, all.

It's taken more time than I had anticipated but I have finally reviewed
the "Install a F35 VM using Cockpit" page[1] of our user documentation.

My first issue is with the sentence "If there is no entry Virtual
Machines the admin missed to install the cockpit-machines module when
installing the virtualization support. Select Applications further down
and then Machines for installation.".

My cockpit installation did not have the "Virtual Machines" menu option
nor did I have the option to install cockpit modules. I could initially
only remove installed modules. Coming back to this days later, I now see
all cockpit modules, with the ability to install those I don't have. Is
this a known issue or have I done this wrong?

I am suspecting you are facing this issue https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/issues/16128
 

The _images/virtualization-vm-install-fedoraserver-cockpit-020.png image
does not match the form I get on F35. I have a "Connection" option which
gives me the choice between "System" and "Session". This is not
reflected in the image.

There are cases where 'Session' connection is not available, for example when logged in to cockpit as root.
 

The documentation later states "After a test of the installation media
the well known installation process begins. You may select Expand at the
right top to increase readability". In my case, I HAD to click on
'Expand' for the VNC console to register my keystrokes.

There is an open issue about this, https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit-machines/issues/29

Hope this helps,
Katerina


In the "Optional post-installation tasks" section, the first task is
titled "Get rid of nano as default editor". I feel "Making vim the
default editor" better reflects the contents of this section. I would
also recommend replacing the command by "dnf install --allowerasing
vim-default-editor" which simplifies the task.

Regards,
Emmanuel

[1] https://docs.stg.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-server/virtualization-vm-install-fedoraserver-cockpit/
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