Virtkick Alpha released !

VPSRAIDSolutions

So anyone whos gonna try let me know your experience with it. Just received a mail today from them. Seems their script is not 1 click install but still its better

https://github.com/virtkick/virtkick-starter

link to the git.

Cheers.

Nowaker

Thanks for sharing! It's not yet one-click, but we're close to that (we'll build packages). Currently, three commands is all you need to install VirtKick on Ubuntu desktop or server. CentOS coming later today. virtkick-starter takes care of:

• installing required packages
• installing Ruby and Node.js in project directory
• configuring network and storage pools in libvirt
• downloading ISO images (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, openSuse, Arch Linux, FreeBSD)

Let me know if you face any problems, we'll try to help.

Big news: WE ARE CROWDFUNDING on Indiegogo! :-)

All we do is free for everyone, including commercial use. If you like what we're doing, please consider supporting us financially. It will keep us full-time focused on VirtKick. Can't support us financially? Star our GitHub repo, follow us on Twitter and Facebook or find a dollar in your pocket (this will increase the number of funders).

Thanks for your support throughtout last two months.

By the way, our submission to Hacker News exploded yesterday. We got more than 200 votes which is something rare amongst Show HNs. Hackers are with us! https://news.ycombinator.com/show

0xdragon

@Nowaker So what currently works?

edan

@Nowaker: Please don't forgot the billing system

DalekOfSkaro

@Nowaker how are you doing IP Reservation in KVM? EBtables?

Nowaker

@0xdragon said:
Nowaker So what currently works?

The same to what you already saw in hosted alpha - a very simple interface for creating new virtual machines, and managing them (lifecycle, VNC console, disks). It's a small step, but works and is almost 1-click installable on Ubuntu. We need people to massively give it a try so we can locate problems - just like we addressed first problems in the webapp code after releasing hosted alpha.

@edan said:
Nowaker: Please don't forgot the billing system

We didn't! The billing module is stretch goal number two - right after implementing all the needed virtualization bits. (See https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/virtkick-take-cloud-back/x/8368808#stretch-goals) It's our top priority - thanks to VPS providers VirtKick can reach virtually everyone.

@DalekOfSkaro said:
Nowaker how are you doing IP Reservation in KVM? EBtables?

Ultimate approach: applying clean-traffic nwfilter to a libvirt domain (virtual machine). It's a whitelist of allowed IPs - and that goes straight to ebtables. What IPs are reserved to what machine is kept in the database.

Current approach: VirtKick is intended for playing now, so there's a NAT network with DHCP. clean-traffic is applied on the whole subnet, except for gateway - allowed IPs are 192.168.123.2-254.

DalekOfSkaro

Nowaker said: Ultimate approach: applying clean-traffic nwfilter to a libvirt domain (virtual machine). It's a whitelist of allowed IPs - and that goes straight to ebtables. What IPs are reserved to what machine is kept in the database.

Current approach: VirtKick is intended for playing now, so there's a NAT network with DHCP. clean-traffic is applied on the whole subnet, except for gateway - allowed IPs are 192.168.123.2-254.

That sounds pretty sweet.... Once this is ready for production I will probably switch from SolusVM to VirtKick!

VPSRAIDSolutions

@Nowaker said:

I've been following your work ever since it started ! so I am very keen about your updates !

VPSRAIDSolutions

@Nowaker said:
Current approach: VirtKick is intended for playing now, so there's a NAT network with DHCP. clean-traffic is applied on the whole subnet, except for gateway - allowed IPs are 192.168.123.2-254.

+1

Nowaker

Thanks @VPSRAIDSolutions

vpslegend

Looks like all those looking for a free or open source alternative of SolusVM will finally have something in near future to cheer for

Nowaker

That's our goal. Thanks @vpslegend.