RE: CloudStack training and the Apache way

2012-04-19 Thread Kevin Kluge
Matt, thanks for the excellent feedback on how to work in the "Apache way". I've cc'd the public dev list as you suggested so all can benefit from your thoughts. >From my original mail, we're looking to see if any long-time Apache members >are interested in speaking about working in the "Apa

Re: [cloudstack-devel] Hyper-V Support

2012-04-19 Thread Mohammad Nour El-Din
Hi On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 2:24 AM, Frank Zhang wrote: > > 1- (Option 2 assumed) In that scenario implementing the Resource in the > manager pattern way, which is better I believe performance wise if HyperV > is locally on the same machine > >>2- (Option 3 assumed) In that scenario implementing

RE: [cloudstack-devel] Hyper-V Support

2012-04-19 Thread Frank Zhang
1- (Option 2 assumed) In that scenario implementing the Resource in the manager pattern way, which is better I believe performance wise if HyperV is locally on the same machine >>2- (Option 3 assumed) In that scenario implementing the Resource in the Agent >>pattern way, which is in the case wh

Re: [cloudstack-devel] Hyper-V Support

2012-04-19 Thread Mohammad Nour El-Din
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 1:30 AM, Frank Zhang wrote: > > > There's a JSON-based protocol to pass commands between Management Server > and host. > > >> That sounds great! Do you maybe have a link for some documentation and > samples? :) > CloudStack has two types of managing host.

RE: [cloudstack-devel] Hyper-V Support

2012-04-19 Thread Frank Zhang
> There's a JSON-based protocol to pass commands between Management Server and > host. >> That sounds great! Do you maybe have a link for some documentation and >> samples? :) CloudStack has two types of managing host. Agent based and manager based. Agent based means installin

RE: Hyper-V Support

2012-04-19 Thread Kelven Yang
>> Consider also that the Hyper-V console managemet requires the Windows >> Hyper-V Tools (e.g. available in the RSAT for Win 7 >> http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=7887), >> which would prevent us to use it from a Linux, Mac etc. The value that CloudStack cons

[Migration] Mailing list, next steps

2012-04-19 Thread David Nalley
Hi folks, So we've officially begun the migration starting with the mailing lists. On the mailing list front our proposed timeline is: 18 April - Announce availability of new mailing lists [1] 19 April - Set the mailing lists page to point to the new mailing lists [2] 20 April - Require moderator

RE: Hyper-V Support

2012-04-19 Thread Kelven Yang
We do have put in a adapter framework to plugin RDP protocol into console proxy. Kelven -Original Message- From: Alessandro Pilotti [mailto:a...@pilotti.it] Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 9:41 AM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Cc: cloudstack-de...@lists.sourceforge.net Subject:

Re: Hyper-V Support

2012-04-19 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Yes, Hyper-V uses RDP as an underlying protocol for console management. Do you have a strong dependency in CloudStack on VNC or you have some sort of adapters? In the second case supporting RDP would be better in terms of performance for Windows hosts. Consider also that the Hyper-V console mana

Re: Hyper-V Support

2012-04-19 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Hi Rajesh, we do WMI calls, with the only exception being the cluster management where we host Powershell calls. We don't use SCVMM is any way :-) Best, Alessandro On Apr 19, 2012, at 18:59 , Rajesh Battala wrote: > Idea is great. > All these Hyper-V operations are implement to manage t

RE: Hyper-V Support

2012-04-19 Thread Kevin Kluge
Yes, very interesting. Can you elaborate on the getThumbnail function. One issue we have been thinking about with Hyper-V is how to do guest console display (console proxy functionality, in CloudStack terms). Since only RDP is available with Hyper-V, and CloudStack knows only VNC, we've bee

RE: Hyper-V Support

2012-04-19 Thread Rajesh Battala
Idea is great. All these Hyper-V operations are implement to manage the Hyper-V box directly using WMI calls right? Or these operations are implemented via SCVMM? Thanks Rajesh Battala -Original Message- From: Alessandro Pilotti [mailto:a...@pilotti.it] Sent: Thursday, April 19,

Hyper-V Support

2012-04-19 Thread Alessandro Pilotti
Hi guys, I'm new to this list, so hi everybody :-) I'm interested in providing code for integrating Cloudstack with Hyper-V. We developend an Hyper-V management framework that we use in our cloud products that can be used (at least as as a starting point). I'm summing up at the bottom of this