From fa3056a8b873628a30ad093025f7ad947ebd8fbf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mad Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2018 12:30:10 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update page 'Why' --- Why.md | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Why.md diff --git a/Why.md b/Why.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..05e9bcd --- /dev/null +++ b/Why.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +We at nativenet.ch naturally use Qemu-kvm for our Infrastructure. +Over the years we tried and used almost all VM management tools around, but always felt back to using plain qemu commands started from a script for one reason or another. +One day a friend wanted to rebuild his homeserver with a better solution than his grown init scripts. After another few tries with the existing management solutions, we decided that we should probably just write our own poor interface. +Most solutions are for cloud providers and bigger environments, while we only needed something to handle a few servers with a few simple vms. +We then created a bash script to generically start, check and stop VMs, a little database to hold the infos and a little interface in php. As the whole thing should stay as lightweight, understanable and therefore extendable as possible, we do not use any templating framework or such. Just bootstrap and a bit javascript to make it conveniant in the browser. + +The goal is not to be compltetely feature complete and/or to compete with the other solutions or such, but to deliver an easy way for a small environment to handle KVM on standard linux installs. \ No newline at end of file