web based virtual machine manager

[Jamie McDonald]

On 01/12/2010 09:24, Andreas Jung wrote:
> Is there a web based Virtual Machine Manager which is available from 
> Ubuntu repositories.
> I am looking for some thing which  can would be useful for
> be web hosting companies.These web hosting companies can buy server 
> space on one place and they can
> sell this server space to one customer who would use this Virtual 
> Machine etc to host website etc inside a cloud.
> The Virtual Machines could be Windows Servers,Solaris servers,Some 
> Linux servers etc or stuff like that.
> I hope I make myself clear.
> Let me know if some one has an idea for the same.
> I am aware of libvirt but that is not web based thing.

Hi Andreas,

You are correct, libvirt is not a web based application it's command 
line based as you say, however it is a set of tools to control virtual 
machines. On top of libvirt you can then build other management 
applications which make calls to libvirt to do the underlying leg work.

If you look at the libvirt website it actually lists some web based VM 
managers built using libvirt: http://libvirt.org/apps.html#web

I'm also in the process of starting a cloud based hosting firm. However 
we are looking at using OpenQRM: http://www.openqrm.com/

Another solution we looked at was Convirture: 
http://www.convirture.com/products_opensource.php

I'd be interested to hear from any others on the list who are running 
this kind of setup for web hosting or VPS provision or even just 
datacenter infrastructure. What are you using?

Kind Regards,
Jamie.