Suggestions and Feedback

fryfrog

Joined: 2002-10-30
Posts: 3236
Posted: Tue, 2006-08-22 18:00

This thread is for you to posts your suggestions and feedback in relation to the Gallery Appliance. All comments, positive or negative are welcome... but keep in mind that if you give your negative comments a nice sugar coating they will be more likely to be addressed!

I'll keep an updated list in the first post to help keep track of certain things.

Feature Wish List:
[ ] Provide a web-gui at the root url that lets you clear/reset/restore your G1 or G2.
[ ] Add an FTP server so that it is easier to upload and download files (in the mean time, wget and scp can be used).
[ ] Clean up the welcome screen, move URLs up, highlight them. Make it more obvious it is "ready to go" now, w/o needing to log in.
[ ] Include vmware-tools.

Problems:
[ ] I forgot to create multiple link albums in G2 to display the different theme options.
[ ] Due to using IDE instead of SCSI, VMware ESX doesn't work.
[x] The URLs on the root page don't have http:// in front.
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rlobrecht

Joined: 2003-01-20
Posts: 92
Posted: Tue, 2006-08-22 22:16

I haven't yet downloaded the Appliance, byt am very interested int he idea, because my gallery is running in a VMWare instance of my own.

My initial thought on the appliance is how does the average Joe who has downloaded the appliance (probably pretty basic Linux knowledge) upgrade the Gallery installation. I'm thinking a module in Administration which checks a specific location in the gallery.menalto.com space for a version number, and if there's a new version, it offers to download the latest preinstallation script, and automatically start the upgrade process.
 
fryfrog

Joined: 2002-10-30
Posts: 3236
Posted: Tue, 2006-08-22 23:01

In G2.2 there should be a "Downloadable Plugin" that will do this. Until then, it is far beyond the scope of a simple vmware appliance. With *this* specific one, it might be possible to simply issue a "conary update gallery" to update both G1 and G2. "conary update g1conf g2conf" would update the pre-configure parts.
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lvthunder

Joined: 2003-09-12
Posts: 808
Posted: Sat, 2006-11-04 00:30

Is there a way for me to mount the drive of the appliance in the host (Windows) so I can edit my code then see it in action without having to use wget. For some reason XAMPP is very very slow. I haven't figured out why.
 
rlobrecht

Joined: 2003-01-20
Posts: 92
Posted: Sat, 2006-11-04 10:24

I don't know if this is present if you only install VMWare Player, but if you instlal VMWare Server (also free) you have a vmware-mount.exe in your VMWare Server directory which you can use to mount a VMWare disk under windows. I don't know if that actually allows you to read the Gallery appliance directory, since I suspect it is a Linux formatted disk. Assuming that it is EXT2/3 then you might also be able to use http://www.fs-driver.org/

Let us know what works.