Virtual Machines Hackfest Wrapup
by Stef Walter
http://cockpit-project.org/blog/cockpit-virtual-hackfest-wrapup.html
Last week a bunch of us met up in Karlsruhe in Germany to work on
virtual machines support in Cockpit. We had some specialists there who
helped us get up to speed with VMs. Tons of pull requests opened,
designs put together. Some of the changes are already merged and
released in Cockpit 144.
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/releases/tag/144
Marek helped all of us understand how Redux stores and models data. The
oVirt folks are using Redux a lot in front end code and want to be able
to share code. Marius managed to reconcile)
Redux with our dialog and promise code.
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/7121
Creating virtual machines is hard. There's a surprising amount of
strange little details and corner cases. Andreas, Garrett, Pavel,
Dominik and Michal were involved in long discussions about how to make
this work. And Dominik opened a pull request.
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/7128
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Stef and Marek worked on sharing code between the oVirt javascript code
based on Cockpit and the more general virtual machines code in Cockpit.
Since most of the code is shared, we decided we didn't want to create
any further API here that we had to keep stable, but rather build and
develop the two in tandem. In the future some of the specific UI widgets
will be factored out into reusable stable javascript NPM components.
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/7139
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/7133
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/7128
Martin refactored Cockpit's access to libvirt to be more efficient and
scalable with the number of VMs. It currently uses virsh.
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/7131
At the same time Lars and Pavel started a DBus based wrapper for
libvirt. This wrapper should be maintained near other libvirt bindings,
such as libvirt-python.
https://github.com/larskarlitski/libvirt-dbus
Marius added functionality to Delete virtual machines from the
Cockpit UI.
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/7113
Stef wrote code to boot real virtual machines during CI testing. We're
using the same Cirros Linux that oVirt and Openstack use during testing.
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/7117
And there were more pull requests and discussions, but I'm running out
of space.
Cheers,
Stef
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