VMoodle

Experimental ::: block_vmoodle
Maintained by Valery Fremaux
VMoodle packs a Moodle Virtualisation toolset for running many independant or mnet bound moodles as an array.
Latest release:
52 sites
8 downloads
17 fans
Current versions available: 8

IMPORTANT NOTE FOR PLUGIN ARCHIVE AVAILABILITY : due to the large amount of plugins supported, it is NOT affordable for us to update moodle.org packages. Please use the Source Control urls to our github to get plugins archives

VMoodle provides an infrastructure to virtualize moodle getting many platforms running on the same codebase. VMoodle can register moodle "templates", as a complete snaphsot of a preset Moodle and create new moodles from this template in a few clicks.

Vmoodle provides :

  • Moodle instance creation, monitoring and management
  • Moodle Mnet "supernetwork" command system, running meta-adminsitration commands over several or all instances.

The Moodle 2.x versions are the result of the French state level project "ENTLibre 2.0" Of the National Funding program "Investissement d'Avenir"

Important notice: From Moodle 2.8 Upwards, the core implementation of VMoodle has moved to the local VMoodle plugin. This plugin is awaiting approval at this moment. You may find the last code of the plugin in http://github.com/vfremaux/moodle-local_vmoodle repository.

VMoodle is now maintained at Activeprolearn.com.

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Contributors

Valery Fremaux (Lead maintainer)
Wafa Adham: Migration helper
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  • MD shot of me from his iphone4
    Thu, 20 Sept 2012, 2:43 PM
    Hi Valery,
    i've moved this into the 'Other' category as this plugin cannot be installed easily by an automated system.

    Perhaps if we can work on MDL-34632 sometime we won't need patching to config.php but can instead use a callback as a hook (if not events).

    I think a video showing how this is/was used will be really useful in the long description here for anyone looking at this as it can seem complicated.

    In future it would be great if this was transformed into a local plugin using those events/hooks etc.
  • Valery Fremaux
    Thu, 20 Sept 2012, 3:32 PM
    I tracked the MDL-34632 discussion : i think it would NOT solve this very special case : extra config scripts would probably be considered during the setup phase, as Petr says it would be eventually agreed such a possibility once the system has run at least basic setup (in which database and moodledata attachement). VMoodle needs to work even before, as shifts the complete working environment.

    About the question of making a local plugin : anyway needs VMoodle be monitored and operated from somewhere, thus a block was interesting to give at least an accesspoint to backoffice. Maybe the local plugin could now add adequate Admin links to do it... yeah that seems a good idea indeed, as the position of this bloc in the GUI was not so pretty.... i'll take some time ASAP to consider this architecture shift.
  • Germán and Temudgin
    Thu, 21 Feb 2013, 2:57 AM
    Hi Valery,
    I was looking at your VMoodle block and I noticed that the English language strings are not available for translation at AMOS, which most likely means that there is something not quite right in the plugin code. I think you might want to contact David Mudrak about this.

    In the meantime, I downloaded the files and I hope I will have the spanish translation of the English strings in a few days.

    I also checked the documentation page at http://docs.moodle.org/23/en/VMoodle_Block, added a link to the spanish translation for the 2.3 page version (which seems to be newer than the 2.4 version), and corrected a couple of minor English typos, all of which you can see in the history tab of the page.

    Thanks again for a very promising add-on for large Moodle sites (such as my University).
  • Valery Fremaux
    Thu, 21 Feb 2013, 8:32 PM
    Hi Aparup

    It seems i have a persistant trouble with this package as package info form gets empty (need sto hand fill field) and AMOS warning is raised... Are there any new rules for packaging i need to know ?

    Cheers
    Valery.
  • Tabea Hirzel
    Thu, 6 June 2013, 3:28 PM
    Hello,
    I installed the plugin on Moodle 2.5+. Seems to be fine. But when making the Snapshot Moodle Master Step 1 I get following message: 'Database dump command /usr/bin/mysqldump does not match any executable' - what ca I do?
    Cheers. Tabea
  • Wafa Adham
    Thu, 6 June 2013, 5:02 PM
    Hi Tabea,

    You need to make sure that in the admin settings the MySQLdump path is set properly.
    The message you get indicates the Mysqldump executable is not in its default location, you may refere to your system administrator for the exact path .

    best regards
    Wafa
  • Jaime Alamo
    Thu, 13 June 2013, 4:14 PM
    creating a virtual clone on moodle2.5 I get this error:

    Home

    Coding error detected, it must be fixed by a programmer: required_param() requires $parname and $type to be specified (parameter: vdbtype)
  • Jaime Alamo
    Thu, 13 June 2013, 8:50 PM
    I've installed vmoodle block for 2.4 on a moodle2.5
    and above error is displayed pressing the "database connection test" button
  • John Chan
    Tue, 2 July 2013, 12:14 PM
    I encountered the same error as stated by Jaime.
    To fix it, you need to modify this file: /moodle/blocks/vmoodle/views/management.testcnx.php

    just add the parameter type for each requiring parameters
    $database->vdbtype = required_param('vdbtype', PARAM_RAW);
    $database->vdbhost = required_param('vdbhost', PARAM_RAW);
    $database->vdblogin = required_param('vdblogin', PARAM_RAW);
    $database->vdbpass = required_param('vdbpass', PARAM_RAW);
  • Jaime Alamo
    Wed, 3 July 2013, 5:05 AM
    Certaintly John,
    applying your modification, now it returns "Connection is OK"
  • Shail Jai
    Thu, 18 July 2013, 6:49 PM
    everything is working fine except login section .... our user not able to login in child moodle site ... is this salt issue or lib/setuplib.php file mention in config.php file (in child moodle) ... if possible please provide config.php file example (child moodle site)
  • Valery Fremaux
    Thu, 18 July 2013, 7:06 PM
    there should not be any trouble in child site login as far as accounts are using the same salt for all submoodles. What you just need to check is that the virtualized moodledata root dir has correct access permissions. This assumes that your top Moodledata container is able to give at least group access to all the moodledata. Usually this is what happens when VMoodle creates the moodle data directory using the "test Moodledata" knob. VMoodlized child moodle behave just as any moodle except the master $CFG values have beed shifted BEFORE starting setup.php....
  • Igor Kopetschke
    Thu, 11 June 2015, 9:43 AM
    Is planned version for Moodle 2.9 ?
  • Frankle Lee 李智高
    Fri, 13 May 2016, 11:10 AM
    I have an interesting question, What will happen if one of the child site is down? Will that cause problem to the other children site or even the master site? Is each site quarantined from the other sites?
  • Valery Fremaux
    Sat, 18 June 2016, 9:27 PM
    There is no case where a child site should be down relatively to a master. The case could be that a child site has been disabled from VMoodle registery, in case it will just answer "This VMoodle is not resolved or is fake". This would not affect any other site. Just think ther is only one moodle physically running, one apache, one mysql (or several as you may spread the databases upon distinct DB backends).
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