New project - XenAdminQt - a cross-platform GNU/Linux, macOS, Windows native thick client
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@benapetr
Pretty cool project, might be handy to learn to work with this.Question: Will it run on a raspberry pi with a 1280x720 display? Specifically a Clockwork Pi uConsole with CM4 Rpi module with 8gb or ram.
That's my emergency computing device for when things fail, only thing it is missing is a kvm to USB module to look at BIOS on a server.
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@Greg_E most likely yes, RAM wouldn't be problem, since it's a C++ app it only needs little of it. On macOS when connected to large cluster with many VMs and consoles it shows 110MB usage.
It just needs X11 or wayland compatible environment to start
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Thanks, I will have to play with this when I have time.
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I made a first "demonstrator" preview release for macOS, will upload .deb and .rpm packages as well: https://github.com/benapetr/XenAdminQt/releases/tag/v0.0.1-alpha
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I just released 0.0.2 https://github.com/benapetr/XenAdminQt/releases/tag/v0.0.2-alpha
The first version was really just a proof-of-concept demonstration, this second version is already pretty usable. It can handle all basic stuff, including provisioning of new VMs, VM control (start / stop / suspend / pause), force actions, parallel connections to multiple clusters etc. etc.
Status of what is tested and works and what does:
# Needs work * Menu items * Tree view - should show Virtual Disks, Networks in objects view * Pool HA tab missing * Actions and commands, see actions todo * Performance tab * Search tab has unfinished options panel * VM import / export * Folder and tag views * Network tab (host) - needs finish and test, especially wizards and properties * New pool wizard * New storage wizard * New VM wizard * VM deleting * HA tab * NIC tab - bonding * Clone VM * Create template from VM * Create VM from template # Needs polish * General tab - shows data, but access to data is weird (should use native XenObjects and their properties instead of scrapping QVarianMaps), overall layout is also not good * Memory tabs - they already work, but could look better * Console - it works most of the time, but there are random scaling issues during boot, RDP not supported * UI - menus and toolbar buttons sometime don't refresh on events (unpause -> still shows force shutdown) # Needs testing * VM disk resize * VM disk move * VM live migration * VM cross pool migration * Properties of Hosts, VMs and Pools * VM deleting * Options * Maintenance mode # Finished and tested * Add server * Connection to pool - redirect from slave to master * Connection persistence * Basic VM controls (start / reboot / shutdown) * Pause / Unpause * Suspend / Resume * Snapshots * VM disk management (create / delete / attach / detach) * SR attach / detach / repair stack * CD management * Grouping and search filtering (clicking hosts / VMs in tree view top level) * Tree view (infrastructure / objects) * Events history * Network tab (VM) * Host command -> Restart toolstack -
I also added windows build so that people can help with testing also on windows. It's a static build, no need for installer, just single zipped .exe file. No dependencies.
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I just released 0.0.3 https://github.com/benapetr/XenAdminQt/releases/tag/v0.0.3-alpha it brings it even closer to the original client, with packages for macos, debian12, debian13, ubuntu 22, ubuntu 24, Fedora 43, windows
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Wow, great news. Tried it with my pools.
Connected, basic functions is working, handled pool unavailability.About UI usability:
- templates mixed up with disabled VMs at same root directory. Without any sorting.
I prefer to never see them, since it not important items.
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After app restart all icons became yellow.
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looks like this option do nothing.
How about portable mode? App mostly required for asap situations when XO is down.
- templates mixed up with disabled VMs at same root directory. Without any sorting.
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@Tristis-Oris hello, the app is already somewhat portable. On windows it doesn't require any installation it's just a single .exe file
Regarding templates and sorting of tree view - that's being worked out but you can already hide the templates using View menu (just uncheck you want to display them, they will disappear).
Not sure about the yellow template icons, they is a debug console, you can check logs from it for more details.
Save and restore using encryption / master password isn't implemented in that version you have, it just always remembers all connections, but it's already ported over, see - https://github.com/benapetr/XenAdminQt/pull/15 this option will be available in next version (+ master password encryption)
open Feature/mpw #15
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@benapetr yes, i'm about connections and credentials export\portable mode. Got it.
