[ovirt-devel] UI Plugin to Upload ISO Files

[Nir Soffer]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl at redhat.com>
> To: "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com>
> Cc: "devel" <devel at ovirt.org>, "Lucas Vandroux" <lucas.vandroux at eayun.com>, "李建盛" <jiansheng.li at eayun.com>, "潘礼洋"
> <liyang.pan at eayun.com>, "Michal Skrivanek" <mskrivan at redhat.com>
> 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 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?

Vdsm does support upload over http/https directly to storage.

This feature is used to store ovf backups on storage domains, and probably
not very efficient, but may be good enough for now.

See vdsm/rpc/BindingXMLRPC.py (do_PUT)

> 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.

Nir