I see this as that CS management server should run anywhere java runs.
However, I see quite a few holes in this proposal.
- Management server should never have mounted the NFS secondary storage. We
need to fix that. Please have a talk with Kelven about this. I don't see us
adding Samba to any machine that runs the management server. If this is just
about seeding the system template, it can be done as part of installation
rather than management server.
- If I truly think about Windowsification, I think windows installer, windows
service, opening ports in windows firewall. I don't see any of that here. Or
else it's useless for windows people.
- For java, most people write a windows service that launches the jvm
and keeps track of the jvm.
- There's a number of things that CloudStack management server does today at
startup that should not be there and those are what complicates the
windowfication. These things should be moved out of the management server and
into installation. What should be inside the management server startup
procedure should be checks, rather than generations. It should check for ssh
key exists and the database version matches etc but it should not do the
following.
- Upgrade of the database
- ssh key generation
- iso generation.
--Alex
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Damoder Reddy [mailto:damoder.re...@citrix.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 12:57 AM
> To: 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+Win
> dowsfication
>
> Feedback/comments are welcome.
>
> Thanks & Regards
> Damodar/
