[Update on 2010-28-09]:
I am currently looking for developers, who like to help me starting a real project. You can download the current stage here: http://www.roessner-network-solutions.com/kvmnanny-package.tar.bz2
It includes the TFTP environment, the dns-masq setup and the python code. I will serve the roadmap and nearer instructions later on. So please be a little bit patient
I really would appreciate some help
New project started and coming soon. At least this year
dnsmasq as local DHCP/DNS
tftpd-hpa as TFTP server
Apache2 and apt-cacher/Squid for the intranet with preseed.cfg-file for full unattended install
This application is currently being rewritten in python. I am going to create a new project called kvmnanny. It is a complete management tool for kvm. It will be able to deal with:
Installing guests over the network. And not only Ubuntu/Debian guests. Any guest OS that can run under VT. This differs to other projects. (Already done and tested on several servers)
Deleting and editing guests (to be implemented, but not that hard)
Starting/stopping will be done over the already existing kvm-mange. See somewhere on my Blog
Migrating servers,
CFengine3 integration (hopefully)
It currently offers a ncurses based interface in client mode, which means you can install guests manually on a server and it offers a well defined XML-RPC interface for the upcoming web service.
Roadmap do be done… Below is a raw mind map.
Development is done in a git repository (already).
Copyright of this project is GPLv2 – 2010. The project will never be proprietary or commercial. I want it as an open source project.
Right now, some aspects, I want to add to the current code:
plugin archtiecture for storing the resulting guest configuration in different formats. That could be standard file format, as it is right now, libvirt-xml, MariaDB (MySQL), LDAP format, … Storing the configs in a database will offer replication over a clustered network.
A post-install hook architecture, which servers plugins for i.e. cfengine, or any other kind of tweaks for a guest
maybe other hypervisors later, but for now I only want to focus on kvm
Adding the ability to configure pre assigned network addresses to the guest, instead of using DHCP
So there are some factories missing in the code, which I will add later on. Currently kvm guests are started with kvm-manage, which works, but is not the best solution. I want to have the kvm guests bound to a server process. This way, you can attach to each guest over the console, even you do not have configured the guests network. Currently I am doing this with screen.
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KVMnanny, a network installer using PXElinux
New project started and coming soon. At least this year
This application is currently being rewritten in python. I am going to create a new project called kvmnanny. It is a complete management tool for kvm. It will be able to deal with:
It currently offers a ncurses based interface in client mode, which means you can install guests manually on a server and it offers a well defined XML-RPC interface for the upcoming web service.
Roadmap do be done… Below is a raw mind map.
Development is done in a git repository (already).
Copyright of this project is GPLv2 – 2010. The project will never be proprietary or commercial. I want it as an open source project.
Right now, some aspects, I want to add to the current code:
So there are some factories missing in the code, which I will add later on. Currently kvm guests are started with kvm-manage, which works, but is not the best solution. I want to have the kvm guests bound to a server process. This way, you can attach to each guest over the console, even you do not have configured the guests network. Currently I am doing this with screen.
Thoughts and suggestions are welcome.
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