Virtkick.io Alpha testing released!

VPSRAIDSolutions

So , I've got the email from virtkick saying alpha test is out basically he is hosting it on his own server .
https://alpha.virtkick.io/

Nowaker

Thanks for sharing. Well, not for just 30 minutes, but sessions are limited for 30 minutes, and VMs deleted after that time.

BTW, just noticed that the link you provided opens a wrong page. Please use https://alpha.virtkick.io/. I'll fix the redirect, so it's accessible via https://alpha.virtkick.io/machines too...

VPSRAIDSolutions

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Nowaker

We had some infrastructure problems, but things should be fine now. Feedback is much appreciated!

jh

What's the current state of play with development and the roadmap? Have things changed since you were given feedback on here and VPSB?

Nowaker

Well, all feedback is noted down and we already have an internal draft of project roadmap. I intend to finalize it and publish somewhere around the second alpha, which will be a standalone, installable version. Two or three weeks I think.

Now I'm asking for feedback on the first alpha version: https://alpha.virtkick.io/ It has got a very limited set of features, but is a great opportunity to see how it really works. Better than on the prototype https://demo.virtkick.io/

serverian

Why are you executing the command when someone clicks a button instead of doing queuing and running the command in the background?

Nowaker

Because it's an alpha, a minimum viable product. Ultimately, machine view screen will be a single page app with automatic updates (AngularJS style).

MeanServers

Nice, I might be blind, not sure, but I didn't see on the site if VirtKick will integrate with WHMCS. Do you plan on releasing a WHMCS module before a stable launch? Awesome design though, keep up the good work!

Nowaker

@MeanServers said:
Nice, I might be blind, not sure, but I didn't see on the site if VirtKick will integrate with WHMCS. Do you plan on releasing a WHMCS module before a stable launch? Awesome design though, keep up the good work!

Thanks. Yes, we do have a WHMCS integration on the mid-term plan. A simple, built-in billing with no external dependencies is short term.

aus

Got this while I was creating a VM:

internal error: pool 'HDD' has asynchronous jobs running.

Nowaker

@aus Sorry about that. VirtKick doesn't yet schedule the tasks to be performed in background - everything happens on-line. And our hardware isn't really ready for this load... :-) We thought 128 GB RAM may not be enough, but it turned out that 4x HDD in RAID-10 wasn't enough. The next hosted alpha release won't have these problems! :-)

aus

@Nowaker said:

What does that error mean? Does the software restrict the maximum number of IO operations at any time?

Nowaker

@aus said:
What does that error mean? Does the software restrict the maximum number of IO operations at any time?

It's not possible to concurrently create disks in libvirt. When one disk is being created, you can't add a different one, and you're immediately rejected.

if (pool->asyncjobs > 0) {
    virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR,
                   _("pool '%s' has asynchronous jobs running."),
                   pool->def->name);
    goto cleanup;
}

And pool->asyncjob is incremented on storageVolCreateXM and storageVolCreateXMLFrom. That happens when creating a new VM in VirtKick, or when creating and attaching a new disk to the existing VM.

The next hosted alpha will schedule these operations and present you with a progress bar.

Nowaker

We rolled some infra changes to make the alpha more reliable. Hope https://alpha.virtkick.io/ works better for you now. :-)