Interesting idea…I wouldn’t use it but I wish you good luck in your journey. ;) As Alex mentioned, would be curious to see the demand.
I try to avoid cygwin in production environments…it’s great for desktops, but just feels like a hack for production use, IMHO. The ssh part caught my attention, as that affects the security of the secondary storage VM. Putty doesn’t really want to be used for command-line key generation[1]. Take a look at libssh[2] - from a glance, that looks like it might be the best approach. I’d recommend against taking crypto code from another project and adding into ACS - at that point we have to monitor the origin project for patches and apply as appropriate. John 1: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/puttygen-batch.html 2: http://www.libssh.org/ On Feb 14, 2014, at 3:55 AM, Rajesh Battala <rajesh.batt...@citrix.com<mailto:rajesh.batt...@citrix.com>> wrote: Below are my findings and suggestions. Dependencies for mgmt server to run on windows. 1. ssh-keygen tool ( default available on linux. Its required to generate id_rsa_cloud keys) 2. mount cmd ( this is used by vmware/hyperv to mount sec storage on mgmt server to copy the systemvm.iso to copy to Hosts) 3. injectkeys.sh ( this is binary file executes on mgmt server to inject the dynamically generated sshkeys to systemvm.iso. its bash file) 4. there is some code part in mgmt. server where "sudo" cmd is uses to execute the bash files. We have to rewrite those parts to handle it for windows. 5. Mkisofs this is used to generate the systemvm.iso My thought for the dependencies 1. we can generate ssh-keygen binary from c source or use the putty keygen utility to generate the keys. 2. Mount ( we have to rewrite the code in mgmt. server to handle how to copy in nfs or cifs remote path by referencing them locally) 3. For injectkeys.sh We have to write a new to bat file /python which will do the similar job. 4. There is already windows binary mkisofs is available we can use it. Thanks Rajesh Battala -----Original Message----- From: Damoder Reddy [mailto:damoder.re...@citrix.com] Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 2:27 PM To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org> Subject: [PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS Hi, The current ACS management server runs only on linux based operating systems. Though it runs on windows under Cygwin terminal with some effort, I'd like to introduce this feature to make sure that the management server runs on windows without any dependencies on Cygwin etc. The Jira Ticket : https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-6105 FS : https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Cloudstack+Windowsfication Feedback/comments are welcome. Thanks & Regards Damodar/ Stratosec<http://stratosec.co/> - Compliance as a Service o: 415.315.9385 @johnlkinsella<http://twitter.com/johnlkinsella>
