[ug-bosug] How Can we help student to take up a project in OpenSolaris ?

[Moinak Ghosh]

Manish Chakravarty wrote:
> Hi Udit/Saurabh,
>
> How about a GUI for zone and zfs?
> Something which can be written in PyGTK.
>
> With buttons like "Create Zone", " Create Pool" etc.. a front end to
> zonecfg , zpool etc..
> Something which will help a user get up and running with zone.
>
> I suggest PyGTK cause
> 1) It is bundled with every Solaris Express release (no deployment issues)
> 2) We could use expect with Python and make the UI frontend supply
> commands to the command line programs (backend)
> 3) Python also has tremendous set of libraries  for XML parsing etc
> which might help in the project
> 4) Python is a nice OO lang, should help a CS student :)
>   

   Good idea. For Zones there exists a Command Line utility called Zone 
Manager.
   Maybe the Zone GUI can utilize that:

   http://mydataexchange.net/zonemgr/

Regards,
Moinak.