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We really like Virtualizor, and have adopted it as our control panel on KVM (we are only using KVM). That said, there are some features we believe would improve this product. Here is our wish-list for future development:

Supported OS:

Currently Virtualizor seems to only run correctly on RHEL clones (CentOS et al.) According to your website Ubuntu is “in beta testing mode it is not recommended to use for production purpose” for KVM and Xen. Thank you for developing support for Ubuntu, however...

Neither of these OS would be my fist choice. Neither have a System Distribution Commitment, leaving us (you customer), and our customers under the legal jurisdiction of any upstream providers that might have freely (as in gratis) provided software to the OS, that they retained rights to (as in not-libre). We would choose an OS with a commitment to GNU Free System Distribution Guidelines, which frees (as in libre) us and our customers from international legal concerns. This may not be the concerns of most Virtualizor users (your customers and their customers), however is a concern at a legal and governmental level in my country. We don't want foreign laws dictating what we can do in our country; we have our own laws for that. (We are a G7 nation, not a “rouge nation” nation. It is still a relevant concern.)

I believed the easiest option for you, would be to complete Ubuntu support for Xen and KVM, and then also support Debian, which does have their “Debian Social Contract”. This isn't as good as a commitment to GNU Free System Distribution Guidelines, but should be easy to implement after Ubuntu support is working as Ubuntu is built on Debian. Debian is also a widely used OS unlike the others I will now mention. The first is gNewSense which is a GNU FSDG compliant fork of Debian like Ubuntu, so it should also be easy to support Virtualizor on. I would prefer one of the following Linux Distributions. All support x86-64 architecture and have a commitment to GNU Free System Distribution Guidelines.

gNewSense - http://www.gnewsense.org/Main/Download

Dragora GNU/Linux-Libre - http://www.dragora.org

Ututo - http://ututo.org/descargas

Parabola GNU/Linux-libre - https://wiki.parabola.nu/Get_Parabola

Media (OS Templates)

I'd link to see the following added as default options (all are Free as in Gratis):

Arch Linux - http://www.archlinux.org

gNewSense - http://www.gnewsense.org/Main/Download

Dragora GNU/Linux-Libre - http://www.dragora.org

Gentoo - http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/where.xml

Mageia - http://www.mageia.org/en/downloads (Fork of Mandravia)

Parabola GNU/Linux-libre - https://wiki.parabola.nu/Get_Parabola

Ututo - http://ututo.org/descargas

Media (ISO):

I'd like to see an ISO database that automatically downloads like the OS Templates. It is possible that most of your customers may see no use in this, assuming the majority are OpenVZ users. Personally I don't have a problem for an annual fee to gain access to an extended ISO database, as long as the fee is not excessive. I'd Like to see the following added (all are Free as in Gratis):

Alpine Linux - http://www.alpinelinux.org

DragonflyBSD - http://www.dragonflybsd.org

ESSPEE - https://sites.google.com/site/esspeerelease

FreeBSD - https://www.freebsd.org/

GhostBSD - http://www.ghostbsd.org

Kali Linux - https://www.kali.org/downloads

NetBSD – http://netbsd.org

OpenBSD - http://www.openbsd.org/

OpenIndiana - http://openindiana.org/ (Fork of OpenSolaris)

Plan 9 - http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/

Slackware - http://www.slackware.com/getslack

Source Mage - http://www.sourcemage.org/

Tor-ramdisk - http://opensource.dyc.edu/tor-ramdisk-downloads

VectorLinux - http://www.vectorlinux.com/

Other Customers (yours) might also like CloudLinux, Darwin (Apple), eComStation, HP-UX, OpenVMS, Oracle Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Solaris, or Windows. They are not important to us, however might be easy for you to add to the Media database, especially RHEL and it's clones CloudLinux and Oracle Linux. Darwin is also free as in Gratis, but the rest are paid platforms, and I doubt any of our customers would see the value.

Control Panels:


Currently Virtualizor installs the following panels in CentOS: cPanel, Interworx, IPSconfig3, Plesk, Webmin, Webuzo. While this is better than many other panels, it still leaves a lot of room for improvement. Several of these panels can be installed on other operating systems currently supported, and there are other panels that could be supported. I believe we (your customers) should have the ability to select which panels we want to offer to our customers. A system in Virtualizor that allows us to select the panels to offer, like the OS to offer would be optimum. We would prefer it if the installer checked the OS before offering the panels. For reference the following panels run on the following OS:

cPanel (RHEL Clones): CentOS, Scientific Linux

Interworx (RHEL Clones): CentOS, Scientific Linux

IPSconfig3 (Debian, RHEL, and Suse Clones and Forks): CentOS, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, Scientific Linux, Ubuntu, & gNewSense

Plesk (Debian, RHEL, and Suse Clones and Forks): CentOS, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, Scientific Linux, Ubuntu, & gNewSense

Webmin (most): CentOS, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, Scientific Linux, Ubuntu, & DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD, Gentoo, gNewSense, Mageia, NetBSD, OpenBSD, OpenIndiana, Slackware, Ututo

Webuzo (RHEL Clones): CentOS, Scientific Linux

&

Ajenti (RHEL and Debian Clones and Forks, and FreeBSD): CentOS, Debian, Scientific Linux, Ubuntu, & FreeBSD, gNewSense

DirectAdmin (RHEL and Debian Clones and Forks, and FreeBSD): CentOS, Debian, Scientific Linux, Ubuntu, & FreeBSD, gNewSense

VestaCP: (RHEL and Debian Clones and Forks): CentOS, Debian, Scientific Linux, Ubuntu, & gNewSense

Firewall:

The current firewall is a bit basic. Could you integrate something a bit more robust like CSF (http://download.configserver.com/csf/install.txt).

Power DNS:

The Power DNS system is super simple to setup but there doesn't seem to be a way to provide the accounts automatically to the end user. Could you implement an automatic provisioning feature?

Backup and Restore / Migrate:

It would be nice if our customers could backup and restore their VPS, and migrate between severs. Perhaps a “make image” / “restore image” solution would be best as we would not be able to automate moving IPs between Data Centres. Even if there is not migration, they should be able to backup and restore.

High Availability / CND:

Since Virtualizor already has clustering, a remote backup and restore system, and a DNS System, it seems like it's already most of the way to having HA and CND capabilities. It would be nice if these features were implemented at some point. Clearly this would require multiple (at least two) servers.

Communication Clarity


We do appreciate the constant upgrades, but it would be nice if you could list a full set of feature upgrades. We have created our own template and translation, so whenever there is an upgrade we currently need to manually check everything. There are lists of upgrades sometimes, but they don't give much information.

Example of a format that we'd find useful:

  •     Changes to OpenVZ:
  1. New Feature 1
  2. New Feature 2
  3. Bug Fix 1
  4. Language Files Updated
  •     Changes to Xen:
  1. New Feature 1
  2. Bug Fix 1
  •     Changes to KVM:
  1. New Feature 1
  2. New Feature 2
  3. Language Files Updated
With the above format we could quickly know if our template and translation needs to be updated.

Thanks for reading our ideas.



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