Web-based Virtual Machine Management

Project Name

Web-based Virtual Machine Management

Project Description

Create a web-based rapid provisioning system for virtual machines, building on work started by Ben Hearsum. A user could select an operating system, toolchain, and source branch and the VM would be configured and started (using Xen, KVM, or another hypervisor/backend). Resources: bhearsum

Project Leader(s)

Jesse Buchanan

Project Contributor(s)

I will want a lot of technical help, but as of right now I have nothing specific to ask for. This should change after v0.1. Non-technical things I may want in the future:

• name suggestions (Web-based Virtual Machine Management sucks)

Project Details

v0.1 goal

• very simple CLI tool that will boot a pre-built Xen machine, using either libvirt or virsh
• if time, very rudimentary control of virtual machine (i.e. change RAM)

Related bugs

Since I'm not hacking on Firefox or any Mozilla products per se, finding bugs related to my project is sort of difficult. To get in the right direction I tried searching Bugzilla for 'vmware', 'xen', 'kvm', and 'try server'. Here are a few results:

• 386091 Firefox Profiles in VMware Host create multiple files
• 393092 tracking bug for next try server version
• 393259 Try server slaves should not use anonymous pserver on cvs.mozilla.org for checking out

Project News

2007-09-17: Project claimed. Must contact bhearsum for further information.

2007-09-18: Discussion with bhearsum, ctyler.

2007-09-30: v0.1 goal stated.