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

[Joe Cooper]

Dave Cost wrote:

> > Nifty.  Much better idea for hosting.  Will look into this...When do you
> > plan to begin implementing a capabilities-based version?  I'll spend
> > some time on paralleling the development in a Webmin module.
>
> I have a working version already, but I'm writing some scripts to make it
> usable. Stuff like the kickstart installation and upgrade. Once ready, I'll
> repackage the redhat 7.2 distribution on 1 CD, removing the unnecessary
> packages and including the openvds ones, just to make it easy for us to
> experiment.


Good.  Will look forward to your post announcing it...


> The idea with webmin is to make the module a wrapper for the command line
> utility (svsdadm). This way we won't have to write the administration code
> twice. 


Right.  Easy enough.

> Also, svsdadm should stop messing with the configuration files of the
> virtuals (i.e. no mode mod_apache, mod_xxxxx), as this is all functionality
> where webmin and other managers are much better doing. The idea is to limit
> the svsdadm utility to more administrative tasks like creation/removal of
> virtual servers, package upgrades, process statistics.

Yep...The 'special' apache/etc. has always rubbed me the wrong way. 
Webmin is definitely a better frontend and with a couple of custom 
modules for virtual hosting administration at the VDS level will be 
ideal for hosts offering reseller accounts, etc.  (I already have 
development going in the area of the custom virt modules...it's at 
mojo.sourceforge.net.  Still way incomplete, but back in development now 
that I have a little more time.)
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