Re: [Xen-users] XCP GUI management

[brooks@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Grant,

Take a look at cloudstack.org.

Kevin

On Wed, 17 Aug 2011, Grant McWilliams wrote:

> Xen List
>
> After planning for a year to move my Xen 3.4 classrooms to XCP I'm now
> making an effort. With the old system I wrote many lines of bash scripts
> around the xm command to group and manage my VMs. I used sudo to grant
> privileges for each student to start, stop, console into, reboot, and wipe
> their VMs without any interaction from me. Now with XCP I had the hope of
> moving to the next level and having a web interface for each student to
> manage their VMs with.
>
> After digging through the lists of Management tools on the Xen XCP page I've
> come to the conclusion that we don't have ONE good one. OpenXenManager looks
> to be the best but is very flaky and has to be installed on the client
> (Windows in my case). After following links to the OpenXenWebManager I see
> it hasn't been updated in a year. Both projects seem to be in limbo. XVP
> seems to be stable but doesn't actually do a lot or at least I haven't
> discovered everything it does.
>
> XCCS although actively developed up to last year seemed to have everything I
> want but after I blew a few hours trying to get it to work and digging
> through it's code I've decided that it's a mess. No offense to the gentleman
> who made it but using BASH to echo html tags to standard out is not quite
> the way I want to go. Having 10,000 lines of such BASH scripts borders on
> insanity.
>
> My needs are multi-tenancy so a student can bring up some sort of gui and
> manage their own VM. Manage in the sense of start, stop, reboot, console and
> snapshot. We can install software on the Windows classroom machines but it
> can't be a complex install and the license needs to be at least free.
>
> Any suggestions? Having students "fix" their own VMs is crucial. Not giving
> them full admin rights to ALL VMs is also crucial.
>
> Grant McWilliams
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