[Mageia-sysadm] Clearifying questions

Mon Sep 17 21:30:46 CEST 2012

at $dayjob, an intern is developing a virtcenter (under my guidance) (which 
+likely will be released opensource), largely based on php-libvirt.
+
+the idea is to be able to control multiple libvirtd servers (kvm/xen but i 
+hear vmware should have some kind of libvirtd implementation too, (maybe only 
+in their vcenter))
+
+the intern is using this as his work and will show a demo of this around 
+Januari.
+
+in a first stage features will be as follows:
+ - ldap-group-based authentication
+ - libvirtd servers listed in ldap (so that the authentication can be done per 
+group on different servers)
+ - start/pause/resume/stop/poweroff per vm
+ - clone from templates
+ - spice:// links for a locally installed spice-client
+ - if time permits: delete
+ - if time permits: livemigration
+
+we are likely gonna be pushing this towards our clients, because the 
+management tools we've seen so far: RH, Oracle, etc... are not adequate or 
+horrible or completely bloated.
+
+and this would enable us to put other stuff on clients machines rather than 
+always vmware, which has some nasty bugs^Wfeatures.
+
+
+so, if you can wait that long, it may be suited.
+
+
+AL13N
+
+
+Op maandag 17 september 2012 14:01:51 schreef nicolas vigier:
+> On Mon, 17 Sep 2012, Joerg Stephan wrote:
+> > Hi there,
+> > 
+> > nice topics, all of them
+> > 
+> > 1. Topic: Virtual Machines
+> > What do we use? xen/kwm/vmware? I already done automatic setups for xen
+> > machines on our side. I could take a look. Could be hart whitout
+> > accessing the machines.
+> There is nothing at the moment, so no need to have access to servers to
+> start developing tools to manage VMs (probably based on libvirt), or
+> find existing tools that could do what we need.
+> 
+> What we need :
+> - a command to allow users, or group of users, to generate a new VM with
+>   Mageia 1, 2, Cauldron, with their ssh key installed in the VM (the ssh
+>   key stored in their ldap account), some port redirection to allow
+>   them to connect with ssh, or vnc.
+> - a command to list VMs and their status
+> - a command to stop, start, delete a VM
+> - limit the number of VMs someone can create (because we have limited
+>   disk space on the server)
+> 
+> > 2. Topic sympa emails
+> > maybe we could maniulate the databases. For we use LDAP shouldnt be the
+> > problem if both systems can interact. 
+> > 
+> > 3. On the Sysadmin side
+> > Backups could be done via bacula. i could set that up. Would be easy to
+> > integrate that in puppet for the clients. Needs talking about schedule
+> > for incremental and full backups. And i would need access to a backup
+> > server.
+> We are already installing rsnapshot for backups.
+> 
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