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

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?

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.