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 at ldsys.net> wrote: > From: Christopher G. Stach II <cgs at ldsys.net> > Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] Introducing ConVirt 2.0 > To: "Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS" <centos-virt at centos.org> > Date: Sunday, March 7, 2010, 12:54 AM > ----- "Pasi Kärkkäinen" <pasik at 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: > > 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/ > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt >