From d49eed03efaba893d0c47469b41ba096324cdcf0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dustin B Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 08:49:12 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 15 +++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 72385b5..2165353 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -# Xen-Orchestra (Community) Installer +# Xen-Orchestra (Community Edition) Installer -Xen-Orchestra (Community) allows you to administer Citrix XenServer and XCP-NG as well as backup any VM's running on these systems. +Xen-Orchestra (Community Edition) allows you to administer Citrix XenServer and XCP-NG as well as backup any VM's running on these systems. Confirm your VM's IP Address before starting the script so you know where to login to. @@ -18,3 +18,14 @@ If you don't want NFS capabilities run "sudo apt-get remove nfs-common". * Do not use LAMP * Optional to enable SSH access/highly recommended +# Goals/Backstory for this script + +I've often had questions similar to "why can't this be run on CentOS or Fedora" to which my only reply is and has ever been: The goal is to be the CentOS of XOA. If XOA were RedHat the goal of XOCE would to be CentOS. + +That isn't to say that this installation script won't work on other distributions, please contribute and help us to spread XOCE to other platforms. + +Initially my goal was to simply setup and start using XOCE for a tiny production shop to be able to use an open source hypervisor (Citrix XenServer) and have a management tool/backup solution. Which was initially NAUBackup, when I found XO and that there was an open source management solution and backup solution that wasn't script based I jumped for it. + +That goal transformed into the desire to assist the developers of XOA by using and hopefully finding any bugs or quirks that needed to be worked out. + +