Emulab portal: Topology editor doesn't provide many options/much context
Today I used the Topology Editor within the Emulab portal to create a new portal. My impression is that it is somewhat confusing, in the sense that it doesn't give the user very much context.
For example, from the start, there is a single machine type in the palette: "Add VM." What if the user wants a physical node?
I know that I can drag a node onto the canvas and then edit its properties so that I get a physical node. This task is not easy, though, because the form fields are not populated with useful options. For example, the available physical types aren't populated, and the available disk images are not populated.
To make the new profile that I wanted, I had to open another browser window to look up the name of the current Xen disk image.
There is a magnifying glass in some of the form fields; this didn't seem to do anything. For example, I entered "Xen" into the disk-image filed and tried to search: nada happened.