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

From: "Michal Skrivanek" <mskrivan(a)redhat.com&gt; To: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl(a)redhat.com&gt; Cc: "Itamar Heim" <iheim(a)redhat.com&gt;, "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;, "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; Sent: Monday, December 15, 2014 5:50:21 PM Subject: Re: [ovirt-devel] UI Plugin to Upload ISO Files On Dec 14, 2014, at 22:47 , Alon Bar-Lev <alonbl(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > > > ----- 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? nope, we don't > 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. well, since we have this feature in the plan for a long time and didn't get to it then a UI plugin would be nice. Currently the only way to upload "stuff" is using ovirt-iso-uploader.