Re: web interface?

Daniel P. Berrange
2007-08-01T16:36:37Z

On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 02:25:46AM +1000, Paul J R wrote:
> 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.

libvirt could help in reference to the points elsewhere in this thread about
some people prefering to use a Web UI, and others preferring to automate
with command line tools. The command line virsh tool would see exactly the
same state as the Web UI & they'd each see the results of the other's changes.

We realize there are some things that libvirt doesn't support in its APIs
yet, and so welcome feedback from any users & developers about capabilites
that they need so we can adapt & prioritize future development plans.

Regards,
Dan.
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