Thank you for your sujestions. In the coming months, I will be working in integrating Cobbler with virt-manager. I will be posting my progress here as soon as I can. Thanks again for your support. MB On 8/24/07, David Lutterkort <dlutter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 13:17 -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote: > > I agree we need something along those lines, and IMHO if they are more > > comfortable using point and click, I guess they would also prefer have > > automatic discovery of where cobbler was installed. Do we have (or could > > add) avahi support for discovery of the service. If most install options > > could be centralized (think like an automatic setup template based for > > example on the user LDAP info), provisioning for a new user could come > > as simple an UI as: > > "A centralized setting si available, pick one of the OSes" > > "Fedora 7" > > "Fedora 6" > > "Centos 5" > > ... > > maybe even the processor count and memory size could be defaulted > > from the centalized profiles. > > Along the same lines: enhance virt-manager to support deploying virtual > machine images based on virt-image and its XML image format. There are > lots of possible ways in which this could go, for example: > > * Focus on UI, build VM's based on images stored locally/in a > fixed directory > * Build above out to download images from a central server (or any > webserver, which would aid in distribution of images) > * Freeze an existing/running VM into an image > * p2v migration that takes a physical installation and produces a > VM image (even something simple that just scrapes bits off disk > and packages them w/o worrying too much about device > complications would be really valuable) > * Tracking of image/machine association (think template images for > a development group that they can 'check out' and use) > > David > > > -- > Libvir-list mailing list > Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list > -- Computers are useless; they can only give you answers! -- Picasso -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list