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Re: [Xen-users] Self service interfaces for Xen
Jonathan Bayles <jbayles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Is anyone providing self service interfaces for customers with Xen, what
> products are you using? Where have you seen success?
I have a short shell script that allows a user to run 'xm create -c '
'xm shutdown' 'xm destroy' and 'xm console' - access is controlled via
OpenSSH keys and sudo. It works well, and scares off anyone who needs too much
handholding.
I also use pvgrub so the user can choose his or her own kernel. I give
each user a read-only partition and a read-write partition. on the read-only
partition, there is a install of centos and some utilities. the idea is
pvgrub first hits the menu.lst on my read-only disk, which allows the user
to boot into what I call 'rescue mode' - and after 2 seconds it falls
through to the menu.lst on the first partition of the user's writable disk.
I think it works really well for existing customers; I've had people
go so far as to install NetBSD without any help from me.
The problem is that I don't have an automated way to provision new domains,
or to resize existing domains. I'm working on that now, though.
I figure if they are all ssh commands, it's easily scriptable, and
the security issues are all pretty easy to spot.
--
Luke S. Crawford
http://prgmr.com/xen/ - Hosting for the technically adept
http://nostarch.com/xen.htm - We don't assume you are stupid.
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