[ale] which distribution for KVM and OpenECP

[Damon L. Chesser]

On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 12:19 -0400, David Hillman wrote:
> Oh no, I was under the impression OpenECP was a total fork of Enomaly
> ECP.  Removing someone's copyright statements and then releasing code
> under a different name is just bad form.  The codebase is a mess
> anyway.  I initially tried to use Enomaly ECP about a month ago, but
> they had already removed the free version from Sourceforge.  They have
> been having talks with Amazon, so who knows what will happen there.
> 
> 
> I tried to use the free VMware ESXi with the hope of developing a
> Web-based control panel, but that isn't allowed by VMware unless an
> expensive license is purchased.  I also looked into Eucalyptus, but I
> don't want to have to deal with a cloud controller and different
> nodes; I wanted something simpler.  Still, using something like UEC
> seems to be the easiest and most flexible route.  Thanks for the tip.

For something simple, try proxmox ve.  At current, it can only accept
root login, but if this is for just a bunch of devs, that should work.  
> 
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Steve Brown <scbrown3 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>         I had not heard of OpenECP until now. Going to there site, it
>         looks like they received a cease and desist letter from
>         Enomaly ECP over the use of the ECP trademark and AGPL
>         violations. Oops :) I'll have to look into it though.
>         
>         Have you looked into Eucalyptus? It seems to do what you are
>         talking about also. This is also what Ubuntu is pushing with
>         their UEC [0] distro. 
>         
>         
>         -Steve Brown
>         
>         [0] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEC
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