Evening all,

I'm a student from the UK, currently studying Bsc (Hons) Computer Forensics & Security, looking for a bit of advice regarding front-end development for the oVirt user portal. For my final year project I’m going to be extending the current user portal to produce a user interface that fits the needs of Computer Security education.

I want to create an interface that supports the workflow of a tutor configuring one to many virtual machines / networks for a scenario based lab session. The project will involve developing two different interfaces depending on whether a student or tutor is logged in.

The project is going to be based on a paper that was presented in the UK at the first Cybersecurity Education and Training conference as part of the Vibrant Workshop, and is available in full here:

http://z.cliffe.schreuders.org/publications/VibrantWorkshop2015%20-%20An%20open%20cloud-based%20virtual%20lab%20environment%20for%20computer%20security%20education:%20%20A%20pilot%20study%20evaluation%20of%20oVirt.pdf

The tutor portal will have an avenue for tutors to upload images and a way to group templates of virtual machines for students to clone. The student portal will have one webpage with a list of their owned VMs on the left, like the current user portal, and all lab VM templates on the right organised/grouped by lab. Students will be able to clone a VM or group of VM's from the right with a couple of clicks at most.

I'm planning on forking the user-portal code and making changes here. I want a different interface to appear for the students and the tutors. Initial thoughts were to do this based on the 'Role' concept within oVirt - I plan on creating 2 new user group’s with predefined roles, Student and Tutor, and having the tutor-only functionality appear on an additional tab which only appears if the logged in user has the Tutor role.

We have a powerful development server at university which is currently running oVirt 3.6 with 3 nodes. As of right now I've set up the engine development environment on Fedora 23. I'm still getting familiar with the code and build process and have not yet deployed a build to the server.

It is my hope and intention that any work I produce will be of value to the greater community and will open source all work. I would really appreciate any input / advice in developing for the user portal and hope to produce something make my code changes more likely to be accepted upstream.

Thanks for reading,

Thomas Shaw