Overview

Xen Orchestra uses RPC call to Xen daemon, to provide simple and clear interface for VM's management. It's based on PHP/Ajax/SQL, and can contact every accessible Xen deamon accross network.

You can read news and stuff about Xen Orchestra project on http://xen-orchestra.com .

Goals of this project

I want to provide a clear and simple application.

Mainly with Xen, questions are “Where are my DomU’s at this time ? Are they running ?”. That’s why I started this project : although my DomU’s are on different Dom0, I want to see them all quickly, in one page.

And I would like to stop/pause/restart them in one click. Live migration is really a great feature for Xen : so, it could be easily accesible (two clicks ;) )

Furthermore, check informations about a DomU (like CPU parameters etc.) is crucial. But this is not a final objective.

Future of Xen Orchestra, example of next features :

* allow set of all DomU parameters (CPU, RAM etc.). Set all this stuff in live ;
* restrict access with “DomU per users” : user “foobar” can access and modifiy it’s own domU, or more. Can be really usefull in a classroom for testing prupose, or for developer ;
* possibility of cloning domU and create them (with creating roles, a kind of interface of xen-create-image).

Stability vs cutting edge :

Each time new features will be introduced, it will be in a devel version. I like the “debian way” : first of all, correct bugs, then test… and if there is no (critical) bugs, put the devel version in stable.