[Mageia-sysadm] Clearifying questions

Tue Sep 18 19:54:59 CEST 2012

Op dinsdag 18 september 2012 14:46:09 schreef nicolas vigier:
+> On Tue, 18 Sep 2012, Marja van Waes wrote:
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+> > On 17/09/2012 21:30, AL13N wrote:
+> > > 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.
+> > 
+> > <snip>
+> > 
+> > > so, if you can wait that long, it may be suited.
+> > 
+> > - From jstephan's reply I understand he won't work on this anymore,
+> > because Al13n's intern is expected to come up with a solution in Januari.
+> 
+> That doesn't mean we should stop working on this. We don't know if the
+> tool from AL13N will fit our needs. Or maybe there are other tools we
+> can use, or develop our own based or libvirt. We also need something to
+> generate the Mageia VMs with user key installed, maybe using draklive,
+> or using a base image where we add the key.
+
+very true, i just note what our intentions are...
+
+the work has started for real actually today, i've worked with the intern 
+together.
+
+in general, even if it needs to be finished in januari for him, he still needs 
+to make his paper and demotesting, so we are working with a goal towards end 
+of octobre to be complete and bugfree, but it's my feeling that it might well 
+be useful already end of september, (depending on the required featuresets for 
+mageia)
+
+it might still need to be adapted for mageia use, and even if we're making 
+this, it doesn't mean that noone else can work on the same thing in the mean 
+time.
+
+nonethe less, i'm sure the sysadmin workload is pretty big, (not to mention 
+the other stuff like a tool for QA update validation, backports or even 2317; 
+even if it's not exactly sysadmin workload).
+
+nonetheless, if you eventually decide on using this, since i will know it 
+intimitely, i probably can spend some time on it.
+
+> However this may take time, so we can start by installing VMs manually
+> for now until we have something better.
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