Hi all,
As agreed in the last scrum meeting
(http://kimchi-project.github.io/kimchi/meetings/kimchi.scrum.2014-08-13-13.02.html),
I am sending to you an overview about the sprint 2 tasks.
That way everyone can be aware of what is expected in each task
and we don't block the UI development.
Just to make clear, this is my view on each task!
Maybe you - the task owner - have a different view on that. In
this case, share your ideas with us.
And don't forget to send a RFC, V1 patch, UI mockup or
something related to your task by next Monday (08/18)
This email is just a summary to motivate you! ;-)
ISO pool: Support to download
ISO from URL (vianac)
The idea here is to provide a way to user download a ISO from
URL to the OOTB pool (ISO pool)
POST /storagepools/ISO/storagevolumes/ {'name': <vol-name>,
'url': <http|https|ftp://url>}
- name can be optional. We can generate one automatically based on
ISO path when any name is provided by user.
- url is required.
Questions:
- Which protocols will we support? http, https, ftp? Any other?
- About the UI, how do we show this feature to user?
Basically we have 2 options:
1) In the storage tab:
Add an option "Add ISO" to the ISO pool (or any pool ?); get
the URL and display a progress bar.
2) While creating a template:
Add an option "Download ISO"; get the URL and display a
progress bar.
When the download is completed, we create a template using
the new ISO.
I prefer the first option (storage tab) as it can also be used
for upload ISO (see below)
ISO pool: Support to upload
ISO
This has a similar idea from downloading ISO from URL, but
instead of providing a URL the user will select a local file on
client side.
POST /storagepools/ISO/storagevolumes/ {'name': <vol-name>,
'filepath': filepath}
For the UI we also have the same 2 options from downloading ISO
from URL feature
I prefer the first one (storage tab) as we can use the same UI for
both cases, download and upload.
While selection "Add ISO" option, a new dialog will be displayed
with a radio box: a browser input box (for upload) and a simple
input box for URL (for download). The user can only select one
option and confirm the operation.
Create template from VM (rotru)
This will use the same backing storage mechanism used to create
a template from a IMG file.
POST /templates {'name': <template-name>, 'vm':
<vm-name>}
About the UI:
We have 2 options:
1) When creating a template:
Add an option "From guest"; then list all guests to user choose
one (or multiples ? ) and do the requests
2) On guests Actions menu
Add an option "Create template" and do the request
I prefer the first option (while creating a template)
Discover Kimchi
peers(alinefm)
This will use openSLP to register and discover Kimchi peers in
the same network.
GET /peers will return the Kimchi peers
[{server: "https://1.2.3.4:8001"}, {server:
"https://1.2.3.5:8001"}...]
I think this feature should be optional, ie, we will have a config
file entry that can be enabled/disabled - as this feature is not
critical for virtualization and requires additional software
installation (openSLP) and configuration.
federation = enable|disable
When enabled, the kimchi server will be register in the openSLP
tool and when requesting /peers we will search for peers
When disabled, /peers will return an empty list. Maybe it would be
good to also display a message on UI "Federation feature is
disabled for your Kimchi server."
To display that message, we need to update /config/capabilities to
also return this info.
GET /config/capabilities
{ ...
federation: enable|disable
}
Migration(Simon Jin)
This task was added after we have finished the 1.3 Plan. So it
would be difficult to accommodate the UI for it in out current
plan.
So I'd say I only expect to have the backend done for 1.3 release.
POST /vms/<name>/migrate {server:
<other-kimchi-server-ip>}
Asynchronous event
notify(Sheldon Feng/Zhengsheng Zhou)[backend]
Asynchronous event
notify(WenWang)[UI]
This is an important and big task. But I am not sure we will be
able to finish it on time for 1.3 release.
We have already started some discussion on ML "[Kimchi-devel]
[RFC] Improve task management for kimchi"
(http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/kimchi-devel/2014-June/006230.html)
Authorization:
Allow admin user change permission settings when VM is
running (WenWang)
The idea is display the same
"Edit" dialog view when vm is running or not.
And when vm is running only enable the information that can be
updated with running vm for editing.
That way we eliminate the "Manage Media" option and keep the
UI consistent. And also provide a way to user checks the vm
configuration
(https://github.com/kimchi-project/kimchi/issues/387)
VM
ticket: update novnc/spice code (sheldon)
POST /vms/<name>/connect will automatically set a
random console password for the VM and sets its expiration time to
10 seconds later.
When accessing the console URL, we need to pass the password as a
parameter (password=...) so noVNC/Spice can do the connection to
the guest console.
Display iSCSI targets
when iSCSI server is provided (backend done in 3c6c5c) (Yu
Xin)
It is similar to what we did for NFS servers. But in this case we
will list the iSCSI targets for a given server.
GET /storageservers?_target_type=iscsi
[
{ "host":"127.0.0.1"
"port":"3260"
}
]
GET
/storageservers/<server>/storagetargets?_target_type=iscsi&_server_port=<port>
[
{
"host":"127.0.0.1",
"target":"iqn.2003-01.org.linux-iscsi.localhost.x8664:sn.edb1a004dc57",
"target_type":"iscsi"
}
]
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And thanks for your patience if you were reading this line now! :-)
I know it is a big email but it could not be different based on
the tasks we have for sprint 2.
Feel free to use it as base for your RFC email.
I am looking forward to see all that done.
Regards,
Aline Manera