This vibecoded patch adds group support to virt-manager.
- Right-click on a connection
- "Add group..."
- Drag VMs into the group
It is designed to be non-intrusive. It merely adds a new group element to the
XML. Your VMs will continue to appear normally in virsh or vanilla
virt-manager.
<metadata>
<virt-manager:container xmlns:virt-manager="http://virt-manager.org/xmlns/virt-manager/1.0">
<virt-manager:group>debian</virt-manager:group>
</virt-manager:container>
</metadata>
Upstream will likely never adopt this. They rejected the idea multiple times.
We've made an explicit design decision with virt-manager to not target large numbers of VMs, so this grouping feature isn't something we want to implement.