[Closed] Allow custom profiles for Incus VMs and containers

Feature Requests
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1

Currently the Incus default profile includes a definition for an ethernet connection, but since the UI doesn’t provide any way of modifying, creating new or changing the profiles for VMs, it’s not possible to e.g. create a VM without network connection without dropping down to CLI.

Personally, I don’t think the default profile should even include a NIC definition or the UI should take the NIC from the default profile into account and display it and allow configuring it. At the moment, the UI doesn’t show even a hint that all VMs and containers do, actually, have a NIC included as the NIC box is empty – this is contradictory. Alas, that’s a separate issue and kind of dependent on whether they decide to do something about the profiles or not.

2

On the latest versions, Incus profiles manually created are deleted, so indeed we need either a GUI way of creating /editing them or for the system to stop deleting manually created ones.

3

Worth pointing out that profiles can be stacked too.

Ergo, the ideal UI would be a profile picker which allowed zero or more profiles to be selected for an instance… like many of the other widgets throughout the UI

Combine that with a way to create/edit/modify profiles.

4

With the changes in containerization in 25.04 and 25.10 I am closing this request at this point and releasing the votes.