[ovirt-devel] UI Plugin to Upload ISO Files

[Alon Bar-Lev]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com>
> To: "Lucas Vandroux" <lucas.vandroux at eayun.com>, "devel" <devel at ovirt.org>, "潘礼洋" <liyang.pan at eayun.com>, "李建盛"
> <jiansheng.li at eayun.com>
> Cc: "Michal Skrivanek" <mskrivan at redhat.com>, "Scott Herold" <sherold at redhat.com>, "Allon Mureinik"
> <amureini at redhat.com>, "Federico Simoncelli" <fsimonce at redhat.com>, "Barak Azulay" <bazulay at redhat.com>, "Brian
> Proffitt" <bproffit at redhat.com>, "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl at redhat.com>
> 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.

Alon