[Ovirt-devel] Ganeti from Google (was Re : I'm all for it)

[Ingmar Schraub]

Guillaume FORTAINE wrote:
> Misters,
> 
>> When is oVirt going to reach a stability that makes it possible to
>> consider it for deployment? Right now it seems to be too much in flux
>> to roll it out in any serious way. What is the roadmap for the project?
> 
> I would greatly appreciate to have your comments about this open source
> project used by Google in a production environment, if possible, please :
> 
> http://code.google.com/p/ganeti/

Does ganeti provide a decent web based management solution? (I am not
familiar with Ganeti, just wondering...).

There is the ganeti-gui project. But it hasn't released any code yet and
is just a single person project apparently.

There are always the same set of questions:
- who is using this technology?
- for what purpose is it used?
- what are the goals of the project?

Maybe someone doesn't need a web management solution (or any GUI-based
solution) at all. Maybe then ovirt is an overkill. Maybe someone is
looking for an embedded solution or even adding KVM&Co. to the BIOS onto
 the flash. Those are all different possibilities and targets. I don't
think, that one project for any requirement makes sense.

I think, ovirt has a great potential. But it takes more time to make it
usable for average users. I gave it a try some months ago. I struggled
as well, but it gave me a nice impression.

Maybe you could give ganeti a try and report back here? If neither
existing open source project is what you are looking for, why not
starting your own one?

Regards,

Ingmar