CentOS virt - Aug 2011 - small cloud interface : http://karesansui-project.info/

hi guys,

just wondering if anyone had feedback about this project : 
http://karesansui-project.info/ ; I had a go at setting it up, and it 
took about 5 minutes to get going and be productive.

their installer is extremely odd, its a tarball with RPMS ( although 
they do provide a yum repo as well ).

And its based on CentOS ( hardwired version numbers from centos-5.3 to 
5.5 - does not seem to like 5.6 unless you change their detection 
string, not sure why ).

- KB

On 08/16/2011 12:31 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> hi guys,
>
> just wondering if anyone had feedback about this project :
> http://karesansui-project.info/ ; I had a go at setting it up, and it
> took about 5 minutes to get going and be productive.
>
> their installer is extremely odd, its a tarball with RPMS ( although
> they do provide a yum repo as well ).
>
> And its based on CentOS ( hardwired version numbers from centos-5.3 to
> 5.5 - does not seem to like 5.6 unless you change their detection
> string, not sure why ).
I guess the question is how much such an interface buys you compared to 
lets say virt-manager?
If you only have a hand full of virtual machines then using virt-manager is 
probably easier then setting up any of these cloud tools and if you have 
more then a hand full of guests then many of the functions become redundant 
as you'll need a dedicated monitoring solution like Zabbix anyway so all 
those nifty graphs become pointless.

BTW what happened to Red Hats RHEV-M System? They wanted to release an 
open-source version of that a while ago. Does anyone know what the status 
of that is?

Regards,
   Dennis