Hey Robin! I use Fifo quite a bit in a test lab I set up for my company (4 physical machines, 300GB RAM, 5TB Disk) running off and on 12+ VM's. Fifo works very well for remote access/control of the system including new VM's etc. The ONLY caveat is that VM creation is very easy if you have the image already set and ready to go. If you want to create a custom image (like a Windows VM) and deploy that to some VM's then it's not easy to create the image itself and load it to Fifo's repository via the web interface (at least it wasn't before). But once the image is available -- then it's easy peasy to create VM's out of it and run them.
I started working on hacking the python admin command line to add custom images like imgadm -- but got distracted. But that wouldn't allow you to do this via web anyway -- but would allow you to at least upload the new custom image to Fifo for use. I haven't looked at the latest Fifo yet - but will soon once my travels die down and I get back to the lab. I think you'll like SmartOS/Fifo quite a bit! On Apr 2, 2014, at 4:42 PM, Robin Bowes <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Heinz, > > My use-case is home use - I need plenty of storage and want to > consolidate a few machines into one to save on power, etc. I've > currently got a SmartOS box and a few VMs on it but they're all manually > created. > > I'd like to be able create VMs remotely for use with thinks like beaker > [1] so I'm considering building out a larger box with more CPU/RAM and > hacking it to work with FiFo/Fog. > > Maybe I'll install FiFo on my existing box and try it first. > > Cheers, > > R. > > On Wed, 2014-04-02 at 18:21 +0200, Heinz Nikolaus Gies wrote: >> Hi Robin, >> I’m not entirely sure about the Fog driver, I think it’s no longer >> actively maintained by Brian. I personally haven’t touched fog or the >> ruby stuff myself but for the FiFo thing I am very happy with it ;) >> but I’m biased. >> >> >> That said a NAS is not the target what FiFo was developed for so >> depending on what you expected it to do you might find things you >> hoped for missing. But if you’re just looking for remotely >> create/destroy/start/stop VM’s FiFo should work well, you can use the >> fifo console client (https://github.com/project-fifo/pyfi) which is >> maintained by us. If you have some more questions feel free to hop by >> the IRC channel and poke me (Licenser @ IRC). >> >> --- >> Cheers, >> Heinz Nikolaus Gies >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> >> >> On Apr 2, 2014, at 1:29 PM, Robin Bowes <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> >>> I'm considering building out another home NAS/virtualisation server >>> and I'd like to be able to remotely create VMs. >>> >>> >>> Is anyone using fifo + fifo-fog extensively? Any experiences, >>> positive or negative? >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> >>> R. >>> smartos-discuss | Archives | >>> Modify Your Subscription >>> >> >> >> smartos-discuss | Archives | >> Modify Your Subscription >> > > >> > > > > > ------------------------------------------- > smartos-discuss > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25687768-afcd9333 > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
