Hey guys, just a couple of clarifications. The main component of orchestra we're dealing with here is cobbler, which is for managing *machines*: whether they're physical or virtual should make no difference. So, crucially, you need to have machines available, and it's not a one-stop-shop for creating VMs or anything of the sort; it's not in any way an alternative to xen, but it is a complement to it.
I'd also note that, while there are a couple of scripts to make it *really* easy to use ubuntu releases, orchestra doesn't actively impose any requirements: it's a very thin wrapper over https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/, and you can deploy other distros as easily as you could with a stock cobbler. (and remember, orchestra is much more than just this: I'm talking strictly about the cobbler component). Anyway, it was a pleasure to meet you all on Saturday; looking forward to the next one. Cheers William On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Jonathan Aquilina <[email protected]> wrote: > hey guys > > Raphael had asked if anyone has tried 11.10 as a friend of his had asked > about it. As well William had brought up orchestra for provisioning of > virtual machines in the cloud. > > I am actually testing this as we speak as I am thinking since im the linux > server admin for a friends dedicated server and with xen on its own it is > rather limited in os's and much harder to work with. > > Current I am testing orchestra as an alternative to xen. It supports all > sorts of distros and it doesnt seem to hard to add any other distros since > it is geared towards supporting ubuntu releases. What has suprised me as > well is seeing that it supports windows based virtual machines as well. > > Virtualization backends from what I have seen that is supported are as > follows: > > xen paravirtualized guests > qemu > and vmware. > > There are also 3 ways to work with the vm's: > web based interface > xmlrpc > CLI > > I will give you guys an update as my testing progresses :D would be > interesting to get the mirror server setup with this which would make > backups of the mailing list and site much easier and easier to allocate > resources to. > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > _______________________________________________ MLUG-list mailing list [email protected] http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list
