openQRM - Cloud Computing Platform Files

Changelog for 4.8 :
- Fixed code indention (complete source code)
- Fixed php warnings/errors (complete source code)
- Updated openqrm-initrd-templates and openqrm-clients
- Updated pciutils + pcimodules patch to version 3.1.7
- Added option to overwrite resource-parameter (useful for storage cluster resources with a global cluster ip)
- New OpenVZ-Storage Plugin (Support for OpenVZ as an additional Virtualization technology in openQRM)
  - Added support for live-migration for OpenVZ VMs
  - Integration with Open vSwitch for automated VLAN Management -> http://openvswitch.org/
- Improved kvm and kvm-storage Plugins
  - Added support for live-migration of KVM/KVM-Storage VMs
  - Integration with Open vSwitch for automated VLAN Management
- Improved xen and xen-storage Plugins
  - Added support for live-migration of Xen/Xen-Storage VMs
  - Integration with Open vSwitch for automated VLAN Management
- Enhanced Nagios integration (Nagios3 Plugin)
  - Added custom service-check configuration for appliances
- Initial integration of Icinga (via the Nagios3 Plugin)
- New DRBD MC Plugin incorporating Linbit's DRBD Management Console
- Improved autostarting VMs after Host reboot
- Added "appliance-link-section" hook allowing plugins to add actions to the appliance overview
- Improved plugin notification and error event handling
- Enhanced usability and user-friendliness
- Better "appliance-create" workflow displaying only relevant configuration items
- Improved "resource-new" form
- Added support to Auto-scale the openQRM Cloud via "Out-of-Band-Management" Plugins (IPMI/WakeUpOnLan)
- Progressed with ongoing migration to MVC (removing the frames)
- Ported the first plugins (ip-mgmt, ipmi and wakeuponlan) to the 
  new version of the PHP framework from A. Kuballa -> http://htmlobjects.kuballa.net/
  - Fully Object oriented
  - Fully translatable (multiple language support)
  - Fully templatable (css and javascript integration)
  - Automated user-friendly input checking

openQRM 4.8 Bug fixes:

3061951 - openqrm-client service on ubuntu
2947742 - Create variable for /etc/exports
2819000 - snapshot of a LV
3153469 - Ubuntu, LXC, Reboot the physical machine
2926602 - OpenQRM 4.6 linuxcoe plugin on Centos5.4 64 bit
2958647 - OpenSuSE packaging
2958640 - OpenSuSE NFS storage
2956532 - openqrm-plugin-local-storage-functions not working in sles
2803760 - lvm aoe vblade creation
3106507 - issue when enabling plugin
3111519 - .ssh/authorized_keys wird überschrieben
3153471 - LXC_VM_NETWORK param
3153463 - Ubuntu, LXC, Reverse DNS
3164681 - Templates from shelf, pivot_root error message
3170533 - DNS Plugin bug(s), corrupted reverse-zonefile
2808601 - xen vm creation with same name
3028333 - Renaming kernel in GUI doesn't rename on FS
3165328 - WOL Manager is not accessible
3195300 - Xen VM cannot be started in Xen 4 with debian 6
3195313 - xen plugin Error File descriptor leaked on lvscan invocation
3195318 - xen-storage plugin error Volume group "noop" not found
3192452 - typo in xen-storage startup script
3165331 - Plenty of "Undefined index" messages in Apache/PHP log
3157399 - HA plug-in - If more then 1 NIC assigned not creating new VM
3156441 - in Nagios werden nicht alle Systeme mit Namen angezeigt
3132483 - NAT ist falsch geschrieben
3122276 - Build path wrong
3118427 - mehere gleichnamige Images möglich
2953421 - apt-get problem on Ubuntu at demo
2925545 - Different error mess. with integration plugins
2897181 - Double IP-Assignment (new ressource)
2897175 - New Linux Kernel
2840285 - NFS mounting from novell netware server fails
2781087 - cloud: turn of avahi service on the ubuntu server-templates




openQRM plugins in the 4.8 release:

- Aoe-Storage - Integrates Aoe/Coraid storage server and features the capability to boot resources directly from the Aoe-storage.
- Citrix - Manages Citrix-Xen server.
- Cloud - Datacenter Self-service portal providing a fully automated request and provisioning deployment-cycle.
- Collectd - Automated monitoring and statistics for appliances.
- Dhcpd - Automatically manages ip-address assignment and network-boot deployment.
- Dns - Automatically manages ip-address to hostname resolving.
- Drbdmc - Provides a user-friendly UI for setting up HA-Services on appliances with pacemaker/corosync/heartbeat.
- Equallogic-Storage - Native support for Dell Equallogic Storage.
- Highavailability - Automated highavailability with N-to-1 and even N-to-0 Fail-over.
- Hybrid-Cloud - Integration with the Amazon Public Cloud, the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud and Eucalyptus.
- Image-Shelf - Provides an easy way to add pre-made server-images to openQRM.
- Iscsi-Storage - Integrates the Enterprise iSCSI Target and features the capability to boot resources directly from iSCSI Luns.
- Kvm - Support for rapid network-deployment of KVM Virtual Machines.
- Kvm-Storage - Support for rapid local-deployment of KVM Virtual Machines.
- Linuxcoe - Fully automated OS installation.
- Local-Server - Integration with existing, local-installed Systems.
- Local-Storage - Support for image-based Local-deployment .
- Lvm-Storage - Transforms a standard Linux-box into a rapid-fast-cloning storage-server (AOE, iSCSI and NFS).
- Lxc-Storage - Support for the container based Virtualization technology LCX -> http://lxc.sourceforge.net/
- Nagios3 - Fully automated system and service monitoring with Nagios3 and Icinga.
- Netapp-Storage - Native support for NetApp-Filer Storage systems.
- Nfs-storage - Integrates NFS server and features the capability to boot resources directly from NFS.
- NoVNC - Provides a remote web-console for Virtual Machines and physical systems.
- OpenVZ-Storage - Support for the OpenVZ Virtualization technology 
- Puppet - Fully automated configuration management for appliances.
- Sanboot-Storage - Booting Windows (and other OS'es) directly from an iSCSI or AOE SAN.
- Solx86 - Integration for openSolaris/Solaris X86 systems.
- Sshterm - Provides a secure login to the managed resources through the Web-interface.
- Tftpd - Provides a tftp-server for network-deployment.
- Tmpfs-Storage - Features the capability to boot resources in memory (tmpfs).
- Vbox - Integrates the Virtualbox Virtualization Technology.
- Vmware-esx - Integrates the VMware-ESX virtualization technology.
- Vmware-server - Integrates the VMware-server virtualization technology.
- Vmware-server2 - Integrates the VMware-server2 virtualization technology.
- Wakeuponlan - Automatically starts (power on) physical systems via the Wake-up-on-LAN technology.
- Windows - Support for the Windows Operating System.
- Xen - Support for rapid network-deployment of Xen Virtual Machines.
- Xen-Storage - Support for rapid local-deployment of Xen Virtual Machines.
- Zabbix - Automated monitoring for systems and services 
- Zfs-Storage - Integrates ZFS storage server and features the capability to boot from ZFS.


Features sponsored by openQRM Enterprise:  
- Remote VM console Plugin - NoVNC integration for easy access to the VM console within a web browser
- DRBD MC Plugin - Integration of Linbit's DRBD Management Console, a very user-friendly UI for setting up HA-Services on appliances with pacemaker/corosync/heartbeat

New Enterprise features:
- Cloud-shop - Integrates the openQRM Cloud with E-commerce systems (Magento/Virtuemart)
- Coraid-storage - Native support for Coraid Storage
- Idoit - Automated datacentner and system documentation -> http://www.i-doit.org/
- Ip-mgmt - Fully automated IP-Adress and VLAN Management
- Ipmi - Automated "Out-of-Band-Management" to save power consumption/costs
- Ldap - Centralized User-Management for openQRM and the openQRM Cloud
- Netbond - Configuration utility to setup/configure network-bonding

Updated Image-Shelf:
Additional to the new release we have updated the openQRM Enterprise Image-Shelf with pre-made Linux distributions ready-to-deploy.
Templates for CentOS 5.5 (i386/x86_64), Debian Lenny + Squeeze (i386/x86_64) and Ubuntu 10.10 (i386/x86_64) are now available on the shelf.

Installation openQRM 4.8 on CentOS/RHEL:
1) Add the RPMforge repository -> http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge
2) run "yum install subversion make"
3) run "svn co https://openqrm.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/openqrm openqrm"
4) run "cd openqrm/trunk/src"
5) run "make && make install && make start"

Update openQRM 4.8 on CentOS/RHEL:
1) Follow steps 1-4) of "Installation openQRM 4.8 on CentOS/RHEL"
2) Instead of step 5) run "make && make update"

Installation on Debian/Ubuntu:
1) run "apt-get install subversion make"
2) run "svn co https://openqrm.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/openqrm openqrm"
3) run "cd openqrm/trunk/src"
4) run "make && make install && make start"

Update openQRM 4.8 on Debian/Ubuntu:
1) Follow steps 1-3) of "Installation openQRM 4.8 on Debian/Ubuntu"
2) Instead of step 4) run "make && make update"