Thanks for sharing your view points.
You are right, If some one wants to make a mess.. they can do it as easily with Web interface as with command line tools.
As far as *good* reasons why you may want to consider ConVirt 2.0 for your needs, please see the following url,
http://convirture.com/products_opensource.html
Feel free to compare it with other open source tools and give suggestions on what you would like to see.
Just a side note, one announcement per release is hardly be categorized under "spamming" or "commercials".
--- On Sun, 3/7/10, Christopher G. Stach II cgs@ldsys.net wrote:
From: Christopher G. Stach II cgs@ldsys.net Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] Introducing ConVirt 2.0 To: "Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS" centos-virt@centos.org Date: Sunday, March 7, 2010, 12:54 AM ----- "Pasi Kärkkäinen" pasik@iki.fi wrote:
On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 09:04:20AM -0500, Kanwar
Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
Why would one use ConVirt instead of the
management tools included in
RHEL and/or CentOS? What's the difference?
RHEL/CentOS doesn't provide web-based management.. or
even easy
multi-host / cluster management of virtualization
nodes.
-- Pasi
Are there any *good* reasons? (Since I really hate commercials, I feel compelled to present my contrarian viewpoint.) ConVirt addresses a pretty small portion of the virtualization landscape, and it consists of only a few significant parts:
- Do what other free and open tools already do.
- Slap a web interface on it!
- Spam lists.
- Rope in suckers.
The suggestion that a web interface is a value add to an infrastructure issue is at least insulting. You could attempt to slap a web interface on a fuel injection system (or maybe at least give access to the magic a la MegaSquirt), but a bunch of assholes are still going to blow something up. It's not going to give any admin worth his or her salt a boner because it's not readily scriptable and it amounts to candy for retards. Secondly, everything else that it does is already there. If you can't do it, you shouldn't be touching the machines.
The tool may or may not address some vanilla installations (if there ever was one), but if you need something like that, you are probably better off with EC2 or at least letting someone else handle it.
-- Christopher G. Stach II http://ldsys.net/~cgs/ _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt