[ale] Stable, backward compatible APIs

[Lightner, Jeff]

Point and click idiot - You mean like the guy taking pictures up the woman's skirt at a local mall?  :-)





-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Mike Harrison
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 5:52 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Stable, backward compatible APIs

> For remote consoles ... we don't have any pure consoles.  ssh is good enough.
> virsh provides commands for everything we need.  If we are on the same
> LAN, virt-manager has been enough.  Remember, I said we were small.
> If a remote GUI is needed, I'll come in using FreeNX to a machine on
> the LAN and use that to run

First, what little I know about our KVM/Qemu stuff I learned from Adam Jimerson, but he's usually a quiet lurker until beer has been administered.

But you touched one of my hot buttons: Learning how to admin server things via pure shell (ssh/virsh) and editing text config files on the server directly will save your bacon when the frying pan is hot. Learn how to do it the hard way, and then if you use a browser/gui you have a backup.

For me, it seems there is always some configuration option I need that the direct interface supports but the idiot point and click level interface does not.

Or should that be: Point and click idiot, interface..



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