[ale] which distribution for KVM and OpenECP

Wolf Halton wolf at wolfhalton.info
Thu Mar 17 21:08:33 EDT 2011


Eucalyptis +1 (with caveat that the last time I played with it, it 
needed a core for every running server instance)

On 03/17/2011 12:19 PM, 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.
>
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Steve Brown <scbrown3 at gmail.com 
> <mailto: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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