[Gllug] Xen Control Stuff

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 09:41:19PM +0100, Ian Norton-Badrul wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> It's been quite some time since I posted here, I've been up to a number of
> things since my last post, not least, getting married, having a baby, most
> recently I've been working (partly for work) with Xen and have made a fairly
> simple stab at building my own Xen VM control/admin system.
> 
> Please all feel free to have a look at it and to try it out, I'm eager to see
> what people think and will eventually put together some debian packages.
> 
> http://www.darkspace.org.uk/drupal/
> 
> Most things seem to work pretty well with Xen 3.0 and 3.1, you just need to
> turn on the xml rpc server in /etc/xend-config.sxp, restart xend. Then unpack
> the archive in /var/www and rename the folder to 'dupe', then run the setup.sh
> script.

Looks nice ! I don't know if you've already considered it, but if you've
not, take a look at libvirt[1]. It provides a low level API for managing 
virtual machines which is hypervisor agnostic. It currently supports Xen,
QEMU, and KVM. There is work in progress to port it to OpenVZ, and I
expect other platforms in the future. So if you used libvirt instead of 
the Xen specific XML RPC stuff you'd be able to manage all sorts of
virtual machines with very little extra effort! Based on the capabilities
I see in your flash demo I think we've got APIs to cover most of the 
functions performed in your UI.

I work on libvirt, virt-install/virsh (command line based) and on 
virt-manager[2] (local desktop GUI). A web UI is the missing piece of 
the jigsaw in terms of VM management apps using libvirt...

Regards,
Dan.

[1] http://libvirt.org/
[2] http://virt-manager.org/
-- 
|=-            GPG key: http://www.berrange.com/~dan/gpgkey.txt       -=|
|=-       Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/              -=|
|=-           Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/               -=|
|=-   berrange at redhat.com  -  Daniel Berrange  -  dan at berrange.com    -=|
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 196 bytes
Desc: Digital signature
URL: <http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/gllug/attachments/20070715/ee6eb2d2/attachment.pgp>
-------------- next part --------------
-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at gllug.org.uk
http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug