Opened 9 years ago
#14686 new enhancement
Settings GUI: Number of tabs for NICs set by extradata setting?
| Reported by: | scottgus1bug | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | GUI | Version: | VirtualBox 5.0.6 |
| Keywords: | GUI settings NIC tabs number 8 eight extradata | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | all | Host type: | all |
Description
In this ticket https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/2782 Technologov asks for all eight tabs of NICs to be in the GUI. The decision was to stop at four so as to not confuse new users.
This choice leaves users who need five or more nics to have to jump the hurdle of figuring out a rather long command line, which may fail completely due to typos, or worse may set things wrong, leaving more command line finagling to try to fix the error and get it right.
I may be wrong, but I'm wondering if the first four GUI NIC tabs are established in a programming loop, or could be established that way. Then the upper end of the loop could be any arbitrary number, up to the supported 8 NICs.
I suggest to make the number of tabs shown be controlled by an extradata setting, defaulting to four or even two. If the user wants up to all 8 to show for his special guest he could do that by changing the extradata setting.
