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PowerVM - Informing user of # of in-use VMs

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#834 opened on Dec 2, 2019

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Description

There are a ton of PowerToys. This the first for VMs :)

@benpye has a great gist for a systemtray that tells a user for how many VMs are in use. https://gist.github.com/benpye/4d011e65abc4d9c585b8a59f877a2d29

Things to figure out

  • How we display this information to the user as PT will only have 1 system tray icon
  • As more things come in, how do we have sanity for settings and end user experience
  • Looks like the gist polls versus an event push for seeing if something is running
  • Can we make this expandable past Hyper-V

screenshots from Ben's prototype

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Research direction
Investigate how to integrate with PowerToys' existing system tray icon and explore event driven updates for VM status to avoid polling. Also consider extensibility for other hypervisors.
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