CentOS virt - Feb 2010 - OpenNode (CentOS based) virtualization solution preview released

Hi,

We have released first preview release of OpenNode - 
http://opennode.activesys.org - an open source server virtualization 
solution providing easy to use (CentOS based) bare-metal ISO installer 
and supporting both OpenVZ container-based virtualization and KVM full 
virtualization technology on the same physical host out-of-the-box. So 
everybody who wants to use OpenVZ and KVM together on CentOS host this 
should be appealing.

OpenNode main features are:

1) easy to use automated disk partitioning and LVM setup  (also creating
softraid setup if desired - thou true hardware raid is reccomended for
production servers)
2) installs minimum set of packages needed for out-of-the-box openvz and kvm
hypervisors support  -  together with the libvirt (inluding virsh and
virt-install CLI utilities) and func (Fedora Unified Network Controller)
management interfaces
3) includes stable RHEL5 2.6.18 series kernel provided by OpenVZ project and
rebuilded KVM kernel module package for this ovzkernel
4) does automatic bridge networking setup needed for OpenVZ veth (which enables
broadcast traffic for container) and KVM networking - you just enter interface
configuration data in the installer networking screen and bridge setup is taken
care of by the installer
5) includes opennode cli utility which will run at console logon - provides
(currently only openvz) templates download (CentOS, Ubuntu, LTSP, OpenVPN, Bind,
etc.) and registering OpenNode with central management solution (in development)
6) disables unneeded services - just run only things that are needed by hardware
node to provide stable virtualization platform

OpenNode installer ISO download is provided through sourceforge.net 
project page - http://sourceforge.net/projects/opennode

Please test the installer and also give us feedback for improving OpenNode.

Best regards,

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Andres Toomsalu, andres at active.ee

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 01:28:41PM +0200, Andres Toomsalu
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We have released first preview release of OpenNode - 
> http://opennode.activesys.org - an open source server virtualization 
> solution providing easy to use (CentOS based) bare-metal ISO installer 
> and supporting both OpenVZ container-based virtualization and KVM full 
> virtualization technology on the same physical host out-of-the-box. So 
> everybody who wants to use OpenVZ and KVM together on CentOS host this 
> should be appealing.
...

I would rather see a 3rd party repo with all the src.rpm $arch.rpm,
but that's only my point of view. I could not find anything but the iso
on your site.

Tru
-- 
Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance)
http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B
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Hi Tru,

OpenNode yum repo information will be up during coming week probably 
(its already inside ISO yum.repos.d but the repo url is going to change 
with the next OpenNode release - moving OpenNode specific packages out 
of our generic CentOS repo) but at the moment we don't support 
converting existing CentOS installations to OpenNode just by doing yum 
update anyway - this would install OpenVZ kernel + KVM module for you 
but its then required that you do all the OpenNode customizations and 
setup bridge networking + all needed disk partitions/folders manually.

Regards,

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Andres Toomsalu, andres at active.ee




Tru Huynh wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 01:28:41PM +0200, Andres Toomsalu wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> We have released first preview release of OpenNode - 
>> http://opennode.activesys.org - an open source server virtualization 
>> solution providing easy to use (CentOS based) bare-metal ISO installer 
>> and supporting both OpenVZ container-based virtualization and KVM full 
>> virtualization technology on the same physical host out-of-the-box. So 
>> everybody who wants to use OpenVZ and KVM together on CentOS host this 
>> should be appealing.
>>     
> ...
>
> I would rather see a 3rd party repo with all the src.rpm $arch.rpm,
> but that's only my point of view. I could not find anything but the iso
> on your site.
>
> Tru
>   
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