Looking for a NC host for an Open Source project
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We're looking to make life easier for anyone who uses XCP-NG and Xen Orchestra (specifically XOCE) and are wondering if someone would be willing to provide a NC host that I could upload an XVA file for direct download.
Currently @Danp and I have tested and found a few solutions that should work but would feel better working with this community to host the file.
The amount of bandwidth used I can't estimate (sorry) and the file currently clocks in at 8Gb (working on getting this smaller).
Thanks in advance!
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@DustinB3403 said in Looking for a NC host for an Open Source project:
We're looking to make life easier for anyone who uses XCP-NG and Xen Orchestra (specifically XOCE) and are wondering if someone would be willing to provide a NC host that I could upload an XVA file for direct download.
Currently @Danp and I have tested and found a few solutions that should work but would feel better working with this community to host the file.
The amount of bandwidth used I can't estimate (sorry) and the file currently clocks in at 8Gb (working on getting this smaller).
Thanks in advance!
Why not a torrent? That is how debian and ubuntu iso's can be downloaded with good bandwidth.
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@Pete-S said in Looking for a NC host for an Open Source project:
@DustinB3403 said in Looking for a NC host for an Open Source project:
We're looking to make life easier for anyone who uses XCP-NG and Xen Orchestra (specifically XOCE) and are wondering if someone would be willing to provide a NC host that I could upload an XVA file for direct download.
Currently @Danp and I have tested and found a few solutions that should work but would feel better working with this community to host the file.
The amount of bandwidth used I can't estimate (sorry) and the file currently clocks in at 8Gb (working on getting this smaller).
Thanks in advance!
Why not a torrent? That is how debian and ubuntu iso's can be downloaded.
Because we would need seeds for the file. I did consider it though but I can't guarantee my or anyone else's systems would be online for it. Though the same applies to a NC installation.
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@DustinB3403 said in Looking for a NC host for an Open Source project:
@Pete-S said in Looking for a NC host for an Open Source project:
@DustinB3403 said in Looking for a NC host for an Open Source project:
We're looking to make life easier for anyone who uses XCP-NG and Xen Orchestra (specifically XOCE) and are wondering if someone would be willing to provide a NC host that I could upload an XVA file for direct download.
Currently @Danp and I have tested and found a few solutions that should work but would feel better working with this community to host the file.
The amount of bandwidth used I can't estimate (sorry) and the file currently clocks in at 8Gb (working on getting this smaller).
Thanks in advance!
Why not a torrent? That is how debian and ubuntu iso's can be downloaded.
Because we would need seeds for the file. I did consider it though but I can't guarantee my or anyone else's systems would be online for it. Though the same applies to a NC installation.
Yes, someone needs to seed the files but it could be from any computer at any time. Doesn't have to be a server. And you can easily set how much bandwidth you are willing to give up.
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Is the file a turnkey XOCE installation?
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@Pete-S said in Looking for a NC host for an Open Source project:
Is the file a turnkey XOCE installation?
Yes, simply import it and it turns on from the hypervisor shell.
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@DustinB3403 said in Looking for a NC host for an Open Source project:
@Pete-S said in Looking for a NC host for an Open Source project:
Is the file a turnkey XOCE installation?
Yes, simply import it and it turns on from the hypervisor shell.
Just open a BitTorrent client like Transmission. Select File > New and add your source file.
Now your computer starts seeding the file.Then right click on the torrent and select "Copy magnet link to clipboard".
You get something that looks like this:
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:147fbb2150e62d9ab1b28c05b22517926e27c882&dn=debian-10.4.0-amd64-netinst.isoIf you put that inside a link you get this:
Debian 10.4.0 amd64 netinstI don't think you need a tracker at all when you use magnet files.
Now everybody in the world that has the magnet link can download and seed it without anything more than a BitTorrent client.
Does it get more serverless than that?
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Post a magnet link and I'll see if it works.
You can post the sha256 hash of the file and I'll check it when I have it downloaded.
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magnet:?xt=urn:btih:24120bbb2b5f46780d0a4471a814f75ecf90afdb&dn=XOCE%20-%20working.xvaSHA256 f279f04593c0e7a000f950ccda800b1a2188d665e535c1b3f995c87a38bea836
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Can the torrent be downloaded without additional tools? Remember, script is designed to run from within Dom0 of CH / XCP-ng, so it isn't recommended to install a bunch of extra stuff.
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@Danp said in Looking for a NC host for an Open Source project:
Can the torrent be downloaded without additional tools? Remember, script is designed to run from within Dom0 of CH / XCP-ng, so it isn't recommended to install a bunch of extra stuff.
You'd need transmission-cli, which is just like having an FTP client or similar. Pretty small.
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Transmission-cli is not available on the hypervisor, so magnets or torrents in general are out. If no one is willing to offer up some space on an existing NC installation that's fine.
We're able to make this work using other solutions, albeit just a bit more of a headache.
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@DustinB3403 are you not prioritzing the seed?
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@JaredBusch said in Looking for a NC host for an Open Source project:
@DustinB3403 are you not prioritzing the seed?
It's going and I don't have it limited. Can you hit retry on the file?eee
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your seed does not seem to stay on consistently.
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@JaredBusch said in Looking for a NC host for an Open Source project:
your seed does not seem to stay on consistently.
Sorry about that, it could be that my host is a laptop, I'm trying to make a smaller source anyways if you're trying to offer NC space.
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Would Wasabi be an acceptable host for said file? That'd be 8TB x $0.06 = $0.48/month to host the file. I would just make another bucket to store just it in, and make the file publicly accessable.
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@travisdh1 said in Looking for a NC host for an Open Source project:
Would Wasabi be an acceptable host for said file? That'd be 8TB x $0.06 = $0.48/month to host the file. I would just make another bucket to store just it in, and make the file publicly accessable.
It would, but we were hoping that it wouldn't have to cost the file is currently 1.7Gb, I'm troubleshooting a curl timeout issue, not sure if its with NC or my host or what. . .
The file currently lives here Direct download
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@travisdh1 said in Looking for a NC host for an Open Source project:
Would Wasabi be an acceptable host for said file? That'd be 8TB x $0.06 = $0.48/month to host the file. I would just make another bucket to store just it in, and make the file publicly accessable.
Wasabi has a $5 minimal monthly fee.
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@VoIP_n00b said in Looking for a NC host for an Open Source project:
@travisdh1 said in Looking for a NC host for an Open Source project:
Would Wasabi be an acceptable host for said file? That'd be 8TB x $0.06 = $0.48/month to host the file. I would just make another bucket to store just it in, and make the file publicly accessable.
Wasabi has a $5 minimal monthly fee.
Yeah I know, which this is a project I'm working on to just be kind, which is why I was looking to do this at no cost (to anyone I care about, really).
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For this small of a project you could just use onedrive or something. There aren't going to be many places to store up to an 8GB file for free and be able to download it whenever you want.
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@stacksofplates said in Looking for a NC host for an Open Source project:
For this small of a project you could just use onedrive or something. There aren't going to be many places to store up to an 8GB file for free and be able to download it whenever you want.
Yeah we are looking at and testing different providers for free accounts, it's all a WIP. There may be issues in xcp-ng as well (looking at a few logs which might cause issues)
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@VoIP_n00b said in Looking for a NC host for an Open Source project:
@travisdh1 said in Looking for a NC host for an Open Source project:
Would Wasabi be an acceptable host for said file? That'd be 8TB x $0.06 = $0.48/month to host the file. I would just make another bucket to store just it in, and make the file publicly accessable.
Wasabi has a $5 minimal monthly fee.
I'm already slightly above the minimum for them just from the backups that get pushed to Wasabi, so it really is just that 50 cents a month for me. At less than 2TB that @DustinB3403 posted a little father down, it'd be all of 12 cents.
Remember, they don't charge for downloads.
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First off, I'm a heavy xcp-ng user but don't use Xen Orchestra so I don't know how it is setup.
But why not an iso file instead of an xva? It's much smaller and more flexible.
Debian/ubuntu iso bundled with a preseed file will create a self installing system with just a 350MB file size.
You can run a script on the hypervisor that creates the vm and pulls down the iso (if it's not there), and starts the VM which then installs the OS and XO.
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@travisdh1 said in Looking for a NC host for an Open Source project:
@VoIP_n00b said in Looking for a NC host for an Open Source project:
@travisdh1 said in Looking for a NC host for an Open Source project:
Would Wasabi be an acceptable host for said file? That'd be 8TB x $0.06 = $0.48/month to host the file. I would just make another bucket to store just it in, and make the file publicly accessable.
Wasabi has a $5 minimal monthly fee.
I'm already slightly above the minimum for them just from the backups that get pushed to Wasabi, so it really is just that 50 cents a month for me. At less than 2TB that @DustinB3403 posted a little father down, it'd be all of 12 cents.
Remember, they don't charge for downloads.
Do you mean GB? You keep saying TB.
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@Pete-S said in Looking for a NC host for an Open Source project:
First off, I'm a heavy xcp-ng user but don't use Xen Orchestra so I don't know how it is setup.
But why not an iso file instead of an xva? It's much smaller and more flexible.
Debian/ubuntu iso bundled with a preseed file will create a self installing system with just a 350MB file size.
You can run a script on the hypervisor that creates the vm and pulls down the iso (if it's not there), and starts the VM which then installs the OS and XO.
Because needing an ISO would require people to either have XCP-NG Center installed or know how to build a VM via the command line.
What this provides is a direct import of a working management interface from a root shell on the hypervisor.
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@stacksofplates said in Looking for a NC host for an Open Source project:
@travisdh1 said in Looking for a NC host for an Open Source project:
@VoIP_n00b said in Looking for a NC host for an Open Source project:
@travisdh1 said in Looking for a NC host for an Open Source project:
Would Wasabi be an acceptable host for said file? That'd be 8TB x $0.06 = $0.48/month to host the file. I would just make another bucket to store just it in, and make the file publicly accessable.
Wasabi has a $5 minimal monthly fee.
I'm already slightly above the minimum for them just from the backups that get pushed to Wasabi, so it really is just that 50 cents a month for me. At less than 2TB that @DustinB3403 posted a little father down, it'd be all of 12 cents.
Remember, they don't charge for downloads.
Do you mean GB? You keep saying TB.
Yep, doh!
