Hi Steven, I installed Fifo last night, and it seemed to install OK. I was rather sad to see that stopped VMs count towards the memory usage of the cluster. I was hoping to be able to fire up a load of VMs then stop them and fire up another group. ie. have more VMs defined than I have memory, but only have a subset running at any given time. I'm still not sure what to do about that.
R. On 3 April 2014 14:21, Steven McDowall <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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/184463/21483836-b6b5a6c1 > 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
