Re: [ovirt-devel] UI Plugin to Upload ISO Files

From: "Nir Soffer" <nsoffer(a)redhat.com&gt; To: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl(a)redhat.com&gt; Cc: "Itamar Heim" <iheim(a)redhat.com&gt;, "devel" <devel(a)ovirt.org&gt;, "Lucas Vandroux" <lucas.vandroux(a)eayun.com&gt;, "李建盛" <jiansheng.li(a)eayun.com&gt;, "潘礼洋" <liyang.pan(a)eayun.com&gt;, "Michal Skrivanek" <mskrivan(a)redhat.com&gt;, "Liron Aravot" <laravot(a)redhat.com&gt; Sent: Monday, December 15, 2014 6:47:44 PM Subject: Re: [ovirt-devel] UI Plugin to Upload ISO Files ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl(a)redhat.com&gt; > To: "Itamar Heim" <iheim(a)redhat.com&gt; > Cc: "devel" <devel(a)ovirt.org&gt;, "Lucas Vandroux" <lucas.vandroux(a)eayun.com&gt;, > "李建盛" <jiansheng.li(a)eayun.com&gt;, "潘礼洋" > <liyang.pan(a)eayun.com&gt;, "Michal Skrivanek" <mskrivan(a)redhat.com&gt; > Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2014 11:47:26 PM > Subject: Re: [ovirt-devel] UI Plugin to Upload ISO Files > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Itamar Heim" <iheim(a)redhat.com&gt; > > To: "Lucas Vandroux" <lucas.vandroux(a)eayun.com&gt;, "devel" > > <devel(a)ovirt.org&gt;, > > "潘礼洋" <liyang.pan(a)eayun.com&gt;, "李建盛" > > <jiansheng.li(a)eayun.com&gt; > > Cc: "Michal Skrivanek" <mskrivan(a)redhat.com&gt;, "Scott Herold" > > <sherold(a)redhat.com&gt;, "Allon Mureinik" > > <amureini(a)redhat.com&gt;, "Federico Simoncelli" <fsimonce(a)redhat.com&gt;, > > "Barak > > Azulay" <bazulay(a)redhat.com&gt;, "Brian > > Proffitt" <bproffit(a)redhat.com&gt;, "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl(a)redhat.com&gt; > > Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2014 11:35:40 PM > > Subject: Re: [ovirt-devel] UI Plugin to Upload ISO Files > > > > On 12/12/2014 05:15 AM, Lucas Vandroux wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > > > I'm actually working to create a custom user interface plugin for oVirt > > > web administration application to let user upload iso files. > > > > > > I'm in the very first stage of the project. I'm planning to use > > > angularjs with the ng-flow module <https://github.com/flowjs/ng-flow> > > > on > > > the client-side and a java servlet using the ovirt-iso-uploader > > > <http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_engine_tools#ovirt-iso-uploader> engine > > > tool > > > on the server-side. > > > > > > All my code is going to be on Github in the following repository : > > > iso-uploader-plugin > > > <https://github.com/ovirt-china/iso-uploader-plugin>;. You can also > > > check > > > a more detailed version of the specifications on my wiki > > > <https://github.com/ovirt-china/iso-uploader-plugin/wiki/Specifications>;. > > > > > > I'm writing to you guys to know if there is a way for us to collaborate > > > as you may also want to develop something like this to be integrated in > > > the oVirt Engine. > > > > > > Best regards, > > > > > > - Lucas Vandroux （冯凯） > > > > > > > > > > looks very nice. > > > > This is actually very interesting (and requested by multiple folks) but > > i'd like to see if we should focus on the more simple "upload iso's" or > > it doing more than just upload ISO's, but also VMs. > > for the latter, architecture would probably be a servlet[1] on the > > engine and stream to vdsm to write to storage, so both vm disks and/or > > iso's could be uploaded/downloaded. > > using ssh and/or nfs to send artifacts to hosts is something we should > avoid > so using iso/image uploader tools are not a solution. > vdsm should support uploading images using its own protocol based on the > authentication between engine and vdsm, is it already? Vdsm does support upload over http/https directly to storage. This feature is used to store ovf backups on storage domains, and probably not very efficient, but may be good enough for now. See vdsm/rpc/BindingXMLRPC.py (do_PUT)

> this should be a core feature not an add-on within the current monolithic > implementation, as there is no access to vdsm interaction from any of the > interfaces. Nir