Archipel Node Stateless OS


The ready-to-use Archipel hypervisor

ANSOS Fedora

Live OS Based on Fedora 16

ANSOS CentOS

Live OS on CentOS 6

What is it?

Archipel Node Stateless OS (or ANSOS) is a full packaged Linux distribution containing everything you need to boot up new hypervisors from nothing. It allows to configure solid state storage device at startup to store persistent data. All the rest of the OS is a live CD.

Team work

ANSOS is based on the great work made by oVirt Node. We worked together to add options in Node to include Archipel. The result is that ANSOS is not a separate project from oVirt Node. All changes has been merged in oVirt Node master. This ensure a continuous support of the Live OS by us, and by the community.

Build a virtualization platform in a minute

ANSOS is a live OS. This mean that you don't need to install anything on your physical machine. Burn the ISO on a CD, a USB Stick, or simply boot it from PXE. A lot of things are automated, and it basically only needs a shared storage device and a XMPP server.

Documentation

Documentation is available on our Github wiki. As usual, if you have questions, fell free to join us on our IRC channel.

Last news

Beta 5 and ANSOS available!

Today, we are pleased to announce that the beta 5 of Archipel, named “Moon” is now available. Well, actually it was already available since sunday evening, but the announcement is done today because we were waiting to publish the first version of ANSOS in the same time. Some of you may ask themselves: “What is ANSOS?”. ANSOS ANSOS stands for Archipel Node Stateless OS. It’s a Live Linux OS based on oVirt Node. oVirt is what you use when you want to deploy a new hypervisor in an oVirt environment. ANSOS is what you use when you want to deploy a [...]

Posted on February 22, 2012 at 2:20 pm in General.
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The power of XMPP XMPP is an instant messaging protocol. That is the one used by many messaging services, including Google Talk. Archipel uses this technology to communicate with virtual machines, hypervisors and you. All events – whatever they are – are pushed in real time over XMPP.
The unicity of Libvirt Libvirt is a project that provides an abstraction layer in order to send commands to virtualization engines. Ok that was technical. To simplify, thanks to libvirt, you can pilot KVM, QEMU, Xen, VMWare, OpenVZ, Virtual Box and many more from a unique system.
Open Source And guess what? All this work is released under an open source licence (AGPL). So anybody can participate to improve Archipel's code, features and documentation. If you want to enroll, send us an email to explain what you may be able to bring to the project.
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