VirtKick - a simple, open source alternative to SolusVM
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Nowaker
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@KnownHost-Jonathan, @Epidrive, @Jade Thanks guys! Be sure to sign up for updates at virtkick.io so you don't miss the upcoming beta.
No problem! Keep up the good work!
Nice simple, clean layout though from the looks of the demo. Keep up the good work!
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Nowaker
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@MeanServers Thank you.
UI looks good as others have said.
However, your website claims that your app will be fully open source, yet your github repo does not have any code other than the web demos.
Are you looking to develop this in the open source community model? or are you looking to sell your service for a profit once it is done (if so, it's not really open source)?
However, your website claims that your app will be fully open source, yet your github repo does not have any code other than the web demos.
Are you looking to develop this in the open source community model? or are you looking to sell your service for a profit once it is done (if so, it's not really open source)?
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Zigara
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I was already not impressed with his mock-ass Ruby web demos with no application logic, then I saw https://www.virtkick.io/become-a-sponsor.html and tried out the 'core' he plans on ripping.
He plans on using https://github.com/retspen/webvirtmgr as a 'core'.
https://github.com/retspen/webvirtmgr/wiki/Screenshots
It's a fully functional panel written in Python. It's beautiful. Everything works very smoothly. It's written by some guy in Ukraine.
How about you contribute to the webvirtmgr project directly instead of trying to get sponsorship for writing a piss-poor Ruby web interface for it?
He plans on using https://github.com/retspen/webvirtmgr as a 'core'.
https://github.com/retspen/webvirtmgr/wiki/Screenshots
It's a fully functional panel written in Python. It's beautiful. Everything works very smoothly. It's written by some guy in Ukraine.
How about you contribute to the webvirtmgr project directly instead of trying to get sponsorship for writing a piss-poor Ruby web interface for it?
Nowaker
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And it is 100% open source! It just meant there was no other code.
The development of the real webapplication started just now. Let me paste what I wrote on lowendtalk.com. This describes why I started with UI prototyping, and not the real code.- UI prototype came first. It's the most important thing. Since VirtKick is user focused, UI has to be tested out in the wild as fast as possible. It allowed us to find and address UI problems really fast, and gather feedback from many people. And, what's important, we can could things out before any irreversable (or at least costly) backend/code decisions are taken.
- Now comes the real web application and a small backend server that talks to WebVirtMgr. That's right - an existing, working solution. (We are currently at the beginning of this step)
- Once things are sorted out, we will switch to our backend. No hurry with it. We will do that when WebVirtMgr starts limiting us. And it will when we start working on support for Xen, OpenVZ, Bhyve, Amazon EC2 or Docker containers.
Hope this clarifies that VirtKick indeed is 100% open source right from the start.
Nowaker
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Oh, @Zigara posted at the same time. WebVirtMgr is a frontend for KVM and libvirt only. It's not meant to support any other technologies, nor it's to provide billing, support, auto-configure hypervisors, download ISOs of most interesting distros, integrate with DNS and many more. If you like WebVirtMgr and you don't need anything else, that's fine. I like WebVirtMgr too for some use cases.
Open souce is about using other's code to build bigger things. I have never hidden the fact the first version will use WebVirtMgr so that VirtKick has got faster Time to Market. My very first answer on lowendtalk.com: http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/707699/#Comment_707699
Open souce is about using other's code to build bigger things. I have never hidden the fact the first version will use WebVirtMgr so that VirtKick has got faster Time to Market. My very first answer on lowendtalk.com: http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/707699/#Comment_707699
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Nowaker
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Thanks for letting me know! Sent you a priv message @GIANT_CRAB so we can track down the reason.
EDIT: The reason is disconnect.me extension. Will try to work it around.
EDIT: The reason is disconnect.me extension. Will try to work it around.
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This looks good, and I cannot wait to see a final product.
and good that it is 100% open source too.
and good that it is 100% open source too.This is awesome. I am interested to see it grow and more virtualization technologies to be supported along with features and functions. Good job and thanks for sharing.