Re: web interface?

Paul J R
2007-08-01T16:25:46Z

Yeah, i did look at libvirt and it remains an option. Originally this
was all going to be built around xen (I got xen running on two servers
and had it changing the number of cpu's in a pv host on the fly as well
as live-migrate guests and went oooooo). But then kvm got merged and so
i went thru a phase of trying to decide which would be better suited to
my little project. Around the same time frame, f7 came out and i had a
good play with virt manager (as well as a few other things like the qemu
virtualpc for webmin plugin). Libvirt was right after that and i wrote a
bit of test code to see what i could do with it mostly because it solved
part of the equation. After much agonizing though i settled on native
kvm/qemu mostly for simplicity and its ability to run non-modified
guests on non-hardware virt capable cpus.

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 03:26:57AM +1000, Paul J R wrote:
>
>> Wow, those are both pretty informative. Given both those replies, i'm
>> wondering if i should continue?
>>
>> The kind of thing I had in mind was relatively simple, it'd be a
>> miniture OS that would boot up (over pxe/usb/cdrom) into ram (its about
>> 90mb of ram so far with kvm and a full kernel + kudzu and few small
>> components such as a httpd+php). it searches for a configuration
>> partition and away you go managing the rest via the web interface. I had
>> clustering/multi-node sitting at the back of my head as well.
>>
>
> FYI, libvirt also now provides secure remote access, so it can be used
> off-node from the box being managed. Access is either tunnelled over SSH,
> or directly connected using TLS + x509 certificates.
>
> http://libvirt.org/remote.html
>
> This would enable a single web service to manage multiple hosts securely.
> http://libvirt.org/remote.html
>
> I illustrated some very simple examples here, showing the same commands
> talking to Xen, and KVM/QEMU both locally and remotely over SSH, or TLS.
>
> http://berrange.com/personal/diary/2007/07/libvirt-remote-management-news
>
> Regards,
> Dan.