Problem/Justification
The buttons for controlling the VM are confusing.
- I still now have to keep check which button to click,
power off
orstop
because if you power something off it will stop, if you stop something it implies it is powered off immediately. - The clone button does not do a complete clone of the VM. It copies the VM settings to a new machine but creates a snapshot of the current VM, therefore it is not a completely separate clone which can cause admin issues later down the line unless you know this.
Solution
Change the VM buttons page as follows
- Make the
Power Off
button red - Rename
Stop
toACPI Stop
- Rename
Clone
toSnapshot Clone
Impact
New users especially can click on the wrong button doing a hard power off and not an ACPI graceful shutdown
User Story
I have to keep checking my notes before I shut a VM down so I get the right button.
Adding the word snapshot into the Clone
button makes this much more logical.