[ovirt-devel] [ovirt-users] [RFC] oVirt mobile client

[Yair Zaslavsky]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Yair Zaslavsky" <yzaslavs at redhat.com>
> To: "Greg Sheremeta" <gshereme at redhat.com>
> Cc: "users" <users at ovirt.org>, devel at ovirt.org
> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2014 12:16:33 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] [ovirt-devel] [RFC] oVirt mobile client
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Yair Zaslavsky" <yzaslavs at redhat.com>
> > To: "Greg Sheremeta" <gshereme at redhat.com>
> > Cc: "users" <users at ovirt.org>, devel at ovirt.org
> > Sent: Friday, October 31, 2014 8:03:58 AM
> > Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] [ovirt-devel] [RFC] oVirt mobile client
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Greg Sheremeta" <gshereme at redhat.com>
> > > To: "users" <users at ovirt.org>, devel at ovirt.org
> > > Sent: Friday, October 31, 2014 3:49:11 AM
> > > Subject: [ovirt-devel] [RFC] oVirt mobile client
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > The focus of our OPW internship program starting in December will be
> > > mobile and/or lightweight engine clients -- hopefully integrating the
> > > new ovirt.js project.
> > 
> > +100
> > 
> > Sorry for the ignorant question - does this mean the technology will be web
> > based or native? (i.e - java on top of android, Swift/Objective-C on top of
> > IOS)
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > I see that there are some already existing mobile clients for oVirt.
> > > I'm trying to grasp what we have and what the needs are.
> > > 
> > > moVirt: https://github.com/matobet/moVirt (mbetak)
> > > This appears to be more of a lightweight webadmin. No console access,
> > > but I believe it's planned as part of OPW. (?)
> > 
> > I spoke with mbetak about this a few months ago.
> > When you speak of console, you mean to actually view the VM using spice?
> > sounds very interesting.
> > If I recall, Alon levy (a former red hatter) worked on some spice
> > implementation for html5 or something like that.
> > 
> > Anyway, back in TLV I also had some ideas around that. Do you have some IRC
> > meetings or something that I can join?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Yair
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > nomad: http://www.ovirt.org/Project_Proposal_-_Nomad and
> > > https://github.com/Vizuri/ovirt-nomad
> > > Looks dead -- last commit 3 years ago.
> > > Anyone know more about this one?
> > > 
> > > That's all I see on the first few pages of google.
> > > 
> > > When I think of a mobile client for oVirt, I think the most useful
> > > part would be the user portal -- simple operations for start, stop,
> > > and the ability to view the console of vms. moVirt mentions it wants
> > > to support some basic management operations, though. I think it would
> > > be difficult to do complex management in a mobile client. (I'm biased
> > > towards huge screens, though.)
> 
> Sorry, I was very excited about the news, so I forgot to answer the rest.
> I agree about "user portal" - sounds good to begin with.
> Another idea I had in the past is to have an app (push-based) that will push
> events to a special client.
> We will have a push sever that will get notifications from the event
> notifier, and this server will push the events to registered clients.
> 
> > > 
> > > I'd like to see an official subproject started that coordinates our
> > > mobile efforts.
> > > 
> > > Is this possible? What would it take to start it?
> 
> What do you mean "is that possible"? technically sounds feasible to me (well,
> we'll need to figure out about the console, but an mgmt app without the
> console, why not?) )
> 
> > > 
> > > What would people like to see in such an app?

Regarding console - I guess this link has to do with how to display a web page in native app (I asked a mobile developer friend of mine)  -

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/WebView.html

And this ovirt page can help with spice client for html5 ?

http://www.ovirt.org/Features/SpiceHTML5

Cheers,
Yair


> > > 
> > > Greg Sheremeta
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> > > Sr. Software Engineer, RHEV
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> > > gshereme at redhat.com
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