Useful metadata about VMs

[rootkovska]

It would be useful if core maintained (and exposed e.g. through qvm-prefs) a few metadata about each of the VMs, such as:

• Has the VM ever been connected to network (sticky bit)
• Creation time
• Last run time
• User-provided optional custom description

IIRC there was a ticket mentioning at least some of the above, but can't find it easily.

[woju]

There are several:

• Template policy, services->features, core plugins #1637 discussess "features" which are metadata and core plugins (those metadata you described will be recorded by such plugin)
• Allow users to add free-form text to qubes (for descriptions, notes, comments, remarks, reminders, etc.) #899 (VM description)
• Containers tags/attributes #865 (tags)

Creation time and last run was requested on ML, can't find reference.

[Rudd-O]

Please add a feature / metadata entry for "automatically started by user execution request" or "automatically started on boot" or "manually started with qvm-start". This'll make it easier to do things like upgrade VMs and the shut them down if the VMs have been instantiated by the upgrade process.

[woju]

This issue is abandoned, so I'm going to close it. If that's a mistake, feel free to reopen.
@marmarek @andrewdavidwong

[marmarek]

Oh, I think this is still useful, maybe as an core extension.