Re: [Xen-users] Xen and Enomaly

[Boris Quiroz <boris.quiroz@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thiago Camargo Martins Cordeiro wrote:
> Believe me... the most cool open source "interface for Xen" is Eucalyptus...
>
> 2009/9/11 Olivier LAMBERT <lambert.olivier@xxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:lambert.olivier@xxxxxxxxx>>
>     First, thanks all of you for your encouragements.
>
>     To Grant McWilliams :
>     So far, I just use RPC to control Xen daemon : the API is well
>     documented. See
>     
> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenApi?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=xenapi-1.0.6.pdf
>     
> <http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenApi?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=xenapi-1.0.6.pdf>
>
>     My soft can run on every machine with a web server + PHP5 and sqlite.
>     Just need a connectivity with the Xen daemon. Yes, it can works
>     accross Internet or every networks (but be sure to use encryption !)
>
>     So, no root or other stuff like that. In my case, I choose to make
>     things simple : just an htaccess (so far).
>
>     With the API, you've got access to the entire Xen daemon, but I think
>     it's not so hard to restrict an user to a VM (or more). It's "just" an
>     added layer, can be interfaced with ldap, mysql or pgsql database,
>     with adaquates informations on users.
>
>     Just an example of Xen architecture + XenOrchestra :
>
>     Dom01               Dom02           Dom03
>     ___|_____________|____________|__________ (network)
>                 |                     |                     |
>          Xen orchestra      client           other client
>
>     As you can see, clients are contacting the Xen Orchstra web interface,
>     and then, this one check Dom0's with Remote procedure call.
>
>     With this, you can do everything you want. Just need to implement it !
>     Limitations are the API, which suffer from certain shortcomings (like
>     impossible to differenciate a migrated or an halted VM).
>
>     For your "feature request", I think I'll do, but in a first time, my
>     goal is to admin Xen easily. But ASAP, I'll try to respond to your
>     request.
>     And as it's a open source project, everyone can contribute, so.. more
>     we are, more the project will be great :)
>
>     Regards,
>
>
>     Olivier
>
>     P.S : sorry if there is misspelling in my text, I'm not perfect in
>     English ;)
>
>     On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Grant McWilliams
>     <grantmasterflash@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:grantmasterflash@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>      >
>      > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 5:26 AM, Olivier LAMBERT
>     <lambert.olivier@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:lambert.olivier@xxxxxxxxx>>
>      > wrote:
>      >>
>      >> As I can't put the code right now, I'll try to give you some
>     details :
>      >>
>      >>
>      >> Project Name : XenOrchestra
>      >> Licence : GPL 3 ? (or 2 don't know the real differences)
>      >>
>      >> Small FAQ ;)
>      >>
>      >> -> What is the goal of Xen Orchestra ?
>      >> Provide a simple and clear interface to Xen, across the Xen API
>     with a
>      >> **open source** app. Because I love open-source, I would like to
>     stay
>      >> in this philosophy ;)
>      >>
>      >> -> What can I do with the first release ?
>      >> The first release will be an alpha, but you can know *where* are you
>      >> DomU and more :
>      >> - start/stop/pause/remove a domU (as you can see in the first
>     screenshot)
>      >> ;
>      >> - make live migrations on other dom0 ;
>      >> - have informations about a domU : cpu,ram,network etc.
>      >>
>      >> -> When it's released ?
>      >> I'll try to give you the alpha version ASAP, so.. let's say next
>      >> Sunday (sept. 13). I need to make an installer and "purge" the
>     code to
>      >> offer you a "clear" version.
>      >>
>      >> -> The future ?
>      >> First, create xen-orchestra.com <http://xen-orchestra.com> with
>     a FAQ (this one :D), what is the
>      >> project, a forum and a git server in order to create a community. I
>      >> start now !
>      >> Then, make a Debian Package :D
>      >> Next, I would like to implement "setters" (change cpu/ram/network
>      >> conf) : not really hard. And finally, use this interface to create
>      >> domU and templates...
>      >>
>      >> See you soon, hope my project can help people to stay with open
>     source Xen
>      >> :)
>      >>
>      > Don't forget to make the entire thing accessible to users (not
>     just root)
>      > with somewhat granular access control
>      > otherwise you spent all this time to recreate the exact same
>     thing that
>      > everyone else has written.
>      >
>      > When will we be able to look at your code? I use xen and VMs for
>     my classes
>      > and I start in a few weeks. Like everyone else that needs
>      > non-root administration to domUs I'm writing my own interface. I
>     need a user
>      > named bob to have control over bob's vm and no other.
>      >
>      > Grant McWilliams
>      >
>      > Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use
>      > Windows."
>      > Now they have two problems.
>      >
>
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Thiago,

Do you have some screen shots to show us how Eucalyptus works?

Cheers.

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