[ale] which distribution for KVM and OpenECP

Chuck Payne terrorpup at gmail.com
Thu Mar 17 13:55:16 EDT 2011


On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Damon L. Chesser <damon at damtek.com> wrote:
> 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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I am not sure if this the samething you are wanting to do, but
opennebula is a nice tool to use to manage kvm, and you can set up
your own little cloud. I doing with this with openSUSE but it cn be
done with Ubutu as well.

http://blog.opennebula.org/?p=130

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