On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 12:54 AM, Christopher G. Stach II <cgs at ldsys.net>wrote: > ----- "Pasi Kärkkäinen" <pasik at iki.fi> wrote: > > > > 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: > > 1. Do what other free and open tools already do. > 2. Slap a web interface on it! > 3. Spam lists. > 4. 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/ <http://ldsys.net/%7Ecgs/> > As these tools become more mature I'd like to see some comparisons because I too get a little tired of all the hype surrounding 20 tools that do exactly the same thing. I played with Convirt quite a while ago but it either didn't install right or didn't work right. Version 2.0 looks better. But then we have Eucalyptus, Enomalism, Convirt, Orchestra, Xen Admin, DTC-Xen, Cloudmin and I'd guess a whole bunch more. I wrote my own for classroom purposes that reads a roster and lets me act on whole classes of machines. I didn't release it because I think we have enough Xen guis. What we need to do is combine resources and make one real GOOD one. Grant McWilliams -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20100307/6d8fd590/attachment-0005.html>