revised download page mockup

Jason Brooks jbrooks at redhat.com
Wed Sep 12 14:48:15 UTC 2012


On 09/12/2012 01:01 AM, Dave Neary wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 09/11/2012 11:33 PM, Jason Brooks wrote:
>> Right now, oVirt only works with Fedora and CentOS/RHEL. We shouldn't
>> give people the wrong idea about multi-distro possibilities. Someone
>> could get the engine app running on jboss on a different platform, but
>> vdsm, an essential component for doing anything w/ ovirt, is very much
>> tied to fedora/el right now.
>
> While I accept that this is the current situation, I think we definitely
> want to give people the impression on the website that this is not a Red
> Hat only virtualisation manager - yes, there's work to be done to
> integrate it on other distros, but we are more than happy to integrate
> that work, and we plan on doing it ourselves for Ubuntu in the near
> future. The message "we welcome people who want to run other distros as
> oVirt nodes" is important.

Definitely -- I hope to see us make multi-distro a reality asap, and 
it's important to make that goal clear -- and make clear that currently, 
a goal is what it is.

>
> Cheers,
> Dave.
>
>


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