Submitting Kimchi project as an oVirt incubator project

[Anthony Liguori]

Doron Fediuck <dfediuck at redhat.com> writes:

> ----- Original Message -----
> | From: "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com>
> | To: "Anthony Liguori" <aliguori at us.ibm.com>
> | Cc: "board" <board at ovirt.org>
> | Sent: Friday, July 26, 2013 6:59:29 AM
> | Subject: Re: Submitting Kimchi project as an oVirt incubator project
> | 
> | On 07/24/2013 06:22 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> | >
> | > Hi,
> | >
> | > Kimchi is a web-based management tool meant as an entry level tool for
> | > interacting with KVM.  It compliments oVirt well allowing the project to
> | > provide both a starting point for virtualization that can expand to a
> | > large enterprise environment.
> | >
> | > We believe that Kimchi will benefit by being part of the oVirt umbrella
> | > as we can work together to make the interfaces consistent with the oVirt
> | > UI and integrate with ovirt-node to provide a complete stand alone
> | > virtualization experience for an end-user.
> | 
>
> Indeed much needed for various use cases from my talks in various events.
> People would often ask me about managing a 1-2 hosts setup and Kimchi fits
> right in and I'll be happy to demo it once I have the opportunity.

Yes, this is what started the project.  We've been getting a lot of
feedback from users/customers and the piece that we keep hearing is that
it's too hard to get started with a small deployment.

This is KVM feedback in general, not just oVirt related.

> | do i understand correctly its a simplified web based "virt-manager", or
> | 'server oriented' boxes, or am i missing something?
> | (say, what's the envisioned roadmap of development for features?)
> | 
> | Thanks,
> |     Itamar
> | 
>
> I agree keeping user experience and interoperability are important
> to make it a valuable member of the oVirt ecosystem. This should
> allow Kimchi users to grow their setups on the one hand, while test
> a specific VM locally using Kimchy on the other hand.

Yes.  From a development point of view, I'd prefer that we focus on the
"hand off" experience verses trying to converge the CSS themes or
anything like that though.

I think the later is a good idea in the very long term but in the short
term, there's much more value in the former.

> So +1 from me, as long as we make sure users can benefit both projects
> together without needing to re-create their guests.

Thanks!

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> | >
> | > More information about Kimchi is available at:
> | >
> | > http://github.com/kimchi-project/kimchi
> | >
> | > Let me know if there is additional information I can provide about the
> | > project.
> | >
> | > Regards,
> | >
> | > Anthony Liguori
> | >
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