Re: [Openvds-devel] Control Panel for OpenVDS-2

[Wim Godden]

Dave,

This all sounds exteremly nice... so OpenVDS is going more towards the concepts
of User Mode Linux ?


Greetings,

Wim

Dave Cost wrote:

> > What is the status. Who's in "charge" of the openvds project?
>
> Currently I'm the only active developer. OpenVDS-2 is still a concept more
> than a real thing, but the basic pieces of it are working. It's a matter of
> placing everything together.
>
> So far, it seems possible to have a real root user in each VDS (instead of
> the pseudo-root admin) and what is better, no patches will be required for
> the packages installed in the VDS. Furter, apart from the kernel which is
> shared between the virtuals, all other software can be completely
> personalized. This will allow to run a debian image in one virtual and a
> redhat clone in the other and furter, it allows to update packages in the
> virtuals separately. It's possible to hard-link some files to save space at
> the expense of freedom to the virtual-root user, but there won't be anything
> like the skel in version 1. I'm thinking more of a collection of rpm's which
> represent a functional server and which are installed on each new virtual
> automatically (something very similar to a kickstart installation).
>
> Still the administrator of the hosting server has enough control to limit
> the root's of the virtuals from taking down the system of from binding the
> wrong ip addresses or using too much CPU resources.
>
> But all this is RAW power and needs to be implemented properly via control
> tools and possibly with a centralized control like svsdadm can be. In fact,
> apart from the authentication and encryption layers and some of the freevsd
> protocol, the rest of the source from FreeVSD appear outdated and useless
> and most of it will have to be rewriten. For example, there's no need for
> the hosting server to manipulate the configuration files of the virtuals
> directly, nor this is possible given the huge variety of packages and
> software that can be installed in a virtual (this is why I think the
> administrator of the virtual needs a webmin-like pannel to operate more
> easily).
>
> OpenVDS will give you VDS which will be as similar to a real servers as it
> gets. This can be good or bad, depending on your point of view ;-)
>
> Dave.
>
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