Re: [Xen-users] Self service interfaces for Xen

[Luke S Crawford <lsc@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jonathan Bayles <jbayles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Is anyone providing self service interfaces for customers with Xen, what 
> products are you using? Where have you seen success?

I have a short shell script that allows a user to run 'xm create -c ' 
'xm shutdown' 'xm destroy' and 'xm console'  -  access is controlled via 
OpenSSH keys and sudo.  It works well, and scares off anyone who needs too much 
handholding.   

I also use pvgrub so the user can choose his or her own kernel.  I give
each user a read-only partition and a read-write partition.  on the read-only
partition, there is a install of centos and some utilities.  the idea is
pvgrub first hits the menu.lst on my read-only disk, which allows the user
to boot into what I call 'rescue mode'  -  and after 2 seconds it falls
through to the menu.lst on the first partition of the user's writable disk.  

I think it works really well for existing customers;   I've had people
go so far as to install NetBSD without any help from me.  

The problem is that I don't have an automated way to provision new domains,
or to resize existing domains.    I'm working on that now, though.

I figure if they are all ssh commands, it's easily scriptable, and
the security issues are all pretty easy to spot.   

-- 
Luke S. Crawford
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