RE: [PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS

2014-02-26 Thread Paul Angus
: +447711418784 | T: CloudyAngus paul.an...@shapeblue.com -Original Message- From: Kelven Yang [mailto:kelven.y...@citrix.com] Sent: 25 February 2014 23:07 To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS Current way of mounting NFS into management server

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2014-02-26 Thread Todd Pigram
: Kelven Yang [mailto:kelven.y...@citrix.com] Sent: 25 February 2014 23:07 To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS Current way of mounting NFS into management server is the legacy of the rushing old days when VMware support was originally built. To get rid

RE: [PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS

2014-02-25 Thread Alex Huang
[mailto:damoder.re...@citrix.com] Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 9:48 PM To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: RE: [PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS Hi Alex, Apart from agent scripts, there are couple of scripts those gets executed for during the management server startup like injecting ssh

Re: [PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS

2014-02-25 Thread Kelven Yang
: Damoder Reddy [mailto:damoder.re...@citrix.com] Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 9:48 PM To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: RE: [PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS Hi Alex, Apart from agent scripts, there are couple of scripts those gets executed for during the management server startup

Re: [PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS

2014-02-24 Thread Abhinandan Prateek
[mailto:alex.hitch...@shapeblue.com] Sent: 20 February 2014 14:29 To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: RE: [PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS I agree totally, my point was that while there is nothing technically stopping us going for w2k3 there is little reason to do so. Regards Alex

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2014-02-24 Thread Alex Hitchins
...@shapeblue.com -Original Message- From: Abhinandan Prateek [mailto:abhinandan.prat...@citrix.com] Sent: 24 February 2014 12:11 To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS Anyone, is there an open source windows installer tool ? -abhi On 21/02/14 2:30 pm, Donal

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2014-02-24 Thread David Nalley
: [PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS I agree totally, my point was that while there is nothing technically stopping us going for w2k3 there is little reason to do so. Regards Alex Hitchins D: +44 1892 523 587 | S: +44 2036 030 540 | M: +44 7788 423 969 alex.hitch...@shapeblue.com

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2014-02-24 Thread Donal Lafferty
WiX (see http://wixtoolset.org/) -Original Message- From: Abhinandan Prateek [mailto:abhinandan.prat...@citrix.com] Sent: 24 February 2014 12:11 To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS Anyone, is there an open source windows installer tool

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2014-02-24 Thread Alex Huang
24, 2014 8:31 PM To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS Yes, that is one of the objective to make MS not dependant on cygwin or any other windows tools and utilities. The bash scripts are all converted to Python. -abhi On 25/02/14 12:06 am, Alex

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2014-02-24 Thread Damoder Reddy
. Thanks Regards Damodar/ -Original Message- From: Alex Huang [mailto:alex.hu...@citrix.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2014 10:10 AM To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: RE: [PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS Abhi, I think you misunderstood. I meant that it should not depend on things

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2014-02-21 Thread Donal Lafferty
Message- From: David Nalley [mailto:da...@gnsa.us] Sent: 20 February 2014 13:24 To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS There's a difference in incidentally working and validated to work on. I'd limit focus to making sure it works on 2k12r2. --David

RE: [PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS

2014-02-20 Thread Damoder Reddy
- From: Damoder Reddy [mailto:damoder.re...@citrix.com] Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2014 12:32 PM To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: RE: [PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS Thank you all for your inputs. I will aggregate all these things into FS as appendix and will put comments

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2014-02-20 Thread Damoder Reddy
One question I have is, Which version of windows we need to target? Thanks Regards Damodar/ -Original Message- From: Damoder Reddy [mailto:damoder.re...@citrix.com] Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2014 2:04 PM To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: RE: [PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS

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2014-02-20 Thread Rajesh Battala
AFAIK, it would be windows server 2k3, 2k8 2012, 2012R2. Thanks Rajesh Battala -Original Message- From: Damoder Reddy [mailto:damoder.re...@citrix.com] Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2014 4:32 PM To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: RE: [PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS One question I

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2014-02-20 Thread Paul Angus
[mailto:rajesh.batt...@citrix.com] Sent: 20 February 2014 11:13 To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: RE: [PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS AFAIK, it would be windows server 2k3, 2k8 2012, 2012R2. Thanks Rajesh Battala -Original Message- From: Damoder Reddy [mailto:damoder.re...@citrix.com] Sent

RE: [PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS

2014-02-20 Thread Alex Hitchins
[mailto:paul.an...@shapeblue.com] Sent: 20 February 2014 11:17 To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: RE: [PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS Isn't the hyper-v support dependant on using 2012r2 ? So I don't know if I'd bother with going back as far as 2003 Regards, Paul Angus Cloud Architect S: +44 20

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2014-02-20 Thread David Nalley
@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: RE: [PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS Isn't the hyper-v support dependant on using 2012r2 ? So I don't know if I'd bother with going back as far as 2003 Regards, Paul Angus Cloud Architect S: +44 20 3603 0540 | M: +447711418784 | T: @CloudyAngus paul.an

RE: [PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS

2014-02-20 Thread Alex Hitchins
[mailto:da...@gnsa.us] Sent: 20 February 2014 13:24 To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS There's a difference in incidentally working and validated to work on. I'd limit focus to making sure it works on 2k12r2. --David On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 6:37 AM, Alex

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2014-02-19 Thread Damoder Reddy
/ -Original Message- From: abhisek basu [mailto:abhisekb...@msn.com] Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2014 9:16 AM To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Cc: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS Getting a Windows version will expand ACS reach to a large no of audience and make

Re: [PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS

2014-02-15 Thread John Kinsella
On Feb 14, 2014, at 4:21 AM, Damoder Reddy damoder.re...@citrix.commailto:damoder.re...@citrix.com wrote: My comments inline in RED. Apache mailing lists strip HTML, so while some form of mind altering substances in the correct amount might cause your comments to be perceived as RED, in

Re: [PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS

2014-02-15 Thread Alex Hitchins
Out of interest, how many people here would use a windows build? Has there ever been a request from anyone? I like the idea, I just wonder if there is any demand for it. On 15 Feb 2014, at 16:47, John Kinsella j...@stratosec.co wrote: On Feb 14, 2014, at 4:21 AM, Damoder Reddy

Re: [PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS

2014-02-15 Thread John Kinsella
[mailto:damoder.re...@citrix.com] Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 2:27 PM To: dev@cloudstack.apache.orgmailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: [PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS Hi, The current ACS management server runs only on linux based operating systems. Though it runs on windows under Cygwin

Re: [PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS

2014-02-15 Thread Alex Hitchins
] Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 2:27 PM To: dev@cloudstack.apache.orgmailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: [PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS Hi, The current ACS management server runs only on linux based operating systems. Though it runs on windows under Cygwin terminal with some effort

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2014-02-15 Thread Alex Huang
: [PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS Hi, The current ACS management server runs only on linux based operating systems. Though it runs on windows under Cygwin terminal with some effort, I'd like to introduce this feature to make sure that the management server runs on windows without any

Re: [PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS

2014-02-15 Thread David Nalley
On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 12:42 PM, John Kinsella j...@stratosec.co wrote: Interesting idea...I wouldn't use it but I wish you good luck in your journey. ;) As Alex mentioned, would be curious to see the demand. I think its interesting. Currently all of the CMPs seem targeted for Linux. There

Re: [PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS

2014-02-15 Thread Alex Hitchins
] Windowsfication Of ACS Hi, The current ACS management server runs only on linux based operating systems. Though it runs on windows under Cygwin terminal with some effort, I'd like to introduce this feature to make sure that the management server runs on windows without any dependencies on Cygwin etc

Re: [PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS

2014-02-15 Thread David Nalley
On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Alex Huang alex.hu...@citrix.com wrote: I see this as that CS management server should run anywhere java runs. However, I see quite a few holes in this proposal. - Management server should never have mounted the NFS secondary storage. We need to fix that.

RE: [PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS

2014-02-15 Thread Alex Huang
A couple of more to add to the list. There isn't really a good binary software dependency resolution framework for Windows (at least not that I am aware of) and you potentially need lots of different things - mysql libraries, python, ipmitool, or another shell to execute shell scripts. Look

RE: [PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS

2014-02-15 Thread Paul Angus
...@gnsa.us] Sent: 15 February 2014 18:29 To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Alex Huang alex.hu...@citrix.com wrote: I see this as that CS management server should run anywhere java runs. However, I see quite a few holes

RE: [PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS

2014-02-15 Thread Alex Hitchins
...@shapeblue.com -Original Message- From: Paul Angus [mailto:paul.an...@shapeblue.com] Sent: 15 February 2014 18:49 To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: RE: [PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS My view is that anyone who wants to use Hyper-V is very unlikely to want to have Linux based management

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2014-02-15 Thread abhisek basu
| S: +44 2036 030 540 | M: +44 7788 423 969 alex.hitch...@shapeblue.com -Original Message- From: Paul Angus [mailto:paul.an...@shapeblue.com] Sent: 15 February 2014 18:49 To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: RE: [PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS My view is that anyone who wants

[PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS

2014-02-14 Thread Damoder Reddy
Hi, The current ACS management server runs only on linux based operating systems. Though it runs on windows under Cygwin terminal with some effort, I'd like to introduce this feature to make sure that the management server runs on windows without any dependencies on Cygwin etc. The Jira Ticket

RE: [PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS

2014-02-14 Thread Rajesh Battala
: Damoder Reddy [mailto:damoder.re...@citrix.com] Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 2:27 PM To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: [PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS Hi, The current ACS management server runs only on linux based operating systems. Though it runs on windows under Cygwin terminal

RE: [PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS

2014-02-14 Thread Damoder Reddy
Thanks Rajesh for the inputs... My comments inline in RED. Thanks Regards Damodar/ -Original Message- From: Rajesh Battala [mailto:rajesh.batt...@citrix.com] Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 5:26 PM To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: RE: [PROPOSAL] Windowsfication Of ACS