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@Ishaq -> Not much to explain, so I hope that you got the joke
It was a reference to the interface of the panel - looks a bit like Windows 8
@marcm
Oh right.. thought it was in a bad way. :P
@Ishaq - Nah, I appreciate the effort that @joepie91 has put into it. I'd recommend Twitter Bootstrap for the interface, as it would ease his workload allot. Bootstrap is pretty much developer friendly
Looks freakin great.. ... and the interface... looks reeaaalll naz to me
Hmm, can you elaborate? It already requires you to tick a checkbox to make sure that you've checked everything carefully, so I'm not sure what kind of lock mechanism you mean :P
I actually very strongly dislike Bootstrap in multiple ways - it's a mess to work with (HTML Kickstart for example is much simpler to use), it looks extremely generic even when modified, and at the point where you modify it enough to make it not look generic, you might as well have made your own design.
Then again, others are free to make a Bootstrap theme of course
for openvz, vzdump.
This. (For openvz). Means there can be many more templates, install once exploit anywhere, Oh wait, that was Java. Install once, deploy everywhere.
You might want to take a look at Duplicity. Supports encrypted and non encrypted backups, via disk, ssh, ftp, rsync, s3 and what not. Does the incremental/full stuff very good, and the restoring is fast. Could be used as a good off site backup for the VPSes, maybe to a storage VPS plan, it is encrypted anyway.
If you would want to make a bit of money, make everything free (as in speech and beer), but this plugin/functionality not. Charge 50 bucks for it, reward for all the hard work you do.
For the rest, awesome!!!
Yeah, honestly it seems so simple in concept but really does a number for saving time.
No thanks
If people appreciate the work, they can donate voluntarily.
Will definitely implement it then
Is there anything you could use to assist in development? Obviously I could just donate cash, but anything specific that could help? From services to software licenses, just wondering
Beer, I'm sure he needs beer.
Translations are very welcome (there's now a GitHub mirror of the repository so you can just fork, edit, and create a pull request), and at some point in the future I'll probably need access to a Hostbill license to develop a plugin for that (not sure if they require a paid license for plugin development). Other than that I can't really immediately think of anything.
Nah, I don't drink alcohol
Message me for that when the time comes.
No CVM Sponsor link
Going to love this so I can play with vps's in my lab without paying up to SolusVM.
OpenVZ containers is just a config file and a directory representing the "hard disk"
ISO's are INSTALLERS they are meant to be executed from a removable storage so the setup wizard can write the actual OS to the disk.
You are looking for templates, not ISOs, OpenVZ has tons of free templates.
Sorry yes, i wasn't very clear on that point. What i meant is some way to dump the LVM to a .gz file.
Slight update on CVM: the panel isn't done yet, but I'm working on the installer right now... This is what it looks like so far (for a slave node):
Normally you'd be filling in those questions, but since that part of the installer isn't done yet anyway, I haven't filled in anything here.
This is the result afterwards:
The interesting part: you can change around the sources or even the installer, and just run build.sh, and it will create a self-extracting .py that you can run on basically any server to run your (modified) installer.
Update: slave node installer done
I just finished the installer for the slave nodes. It supports CentOS 5, CentOS 6, and Debian - both 32-bits and 64-bits versions. It will install both the scripts required to use the node with CVM, and OpenVZ itself (plus the tools like vzctl and vzdump). If OpenVZ is already installed, it will instead offer to import your existing containers.
The install process looks something like this:
Some ideas of what it looks like:
Released for testing yet?
No, not yet... still working on it. Decided to get the slave installer out of the way though, so that I can just reinstall a node if I blow it up or it otherwise becomes non-functional. Significantly decreases time needed for testing
ok
be sure to drop me a mail/pm when your ready for an end user critique on an end to end trail 
Looking forward to the first non proprietary panel available that actually supports IPv6 ranges rather than a cluster of random addresses
The idea for CVM is to offer three methods of IP assignment:
That should cover most peoples preferences, without getting too clunky
We will in theory be doing some client testing later this month at which point we'll probably be giving away ~50 VPS...
Love the panel, looks really great. Made by a fellow Dutchie ;-)
I'd also like to see (it's mentioned before) KVM and Xen and possibly some failover functions?
Will it be possible to setup the master in a VM on a slave node? (Install slave first, then create VM, then install master on that VM)
That is a bad idea for so many reasons :P
Possible? Yes. Good idea? Probably not. :P
Any particular reason you want to do that?
Another thing which would be create, IMO, would be the ability to use multiple volume groups.
Is that possible within OpenVZ?
I'm sorry, I was actually referring to KVM / Xen.
For testing, so that I don't need two machines. Not in a production environment.
hmm that is a shame, another panel that does not correctly implement IPv6