[Engine-devel] Cluster default with empty processor name with PPC64 support

[Roy Golan]

On 08/30/2013 10:51 PM, Leonardo Bianconi wrote:
>
> Hi everyone!
>
> During the development of PPC64 support in the engine, we faced some 
> UX issues regarding the default Cluster (that Cluster with empty 
> processor name).
>
> Currently, oVirt engine allows the default Cluster to contain empty 
> processor name, and the administrator can add VMs and/or Templates to 
> it. The processor name can be assigned later, editing the cluster or 
> assigning a valid host to it.
>
> During the implementation of PPC64 support on the engine, the field 
> "architecture" was added to Clusters, VMs and Templates entities.
>
> So we have the following questions regarding how the UI should behave:
>
> - Shall we keep allowing the administrator to assign VMs and Templates 
> to the Cluster with no processor name or assigned architecture ?
>
>              -> If we have an "yes" for the question above:
>
>              -- We will have to assign the architecture to the Cluster 
> based on the OS of the first assigned VM, and  the processor name 
> could be defined the same way as currently ... editing the Cluster or 
> assigning a compatible Host to it.
>
> -- The VM creation popup will have to be able to indicate the 
> architecture of each OS ... some OSes have the same name, and it may 
> get ambiguous since the Cluster architecture is still undefined at 
> that point (before the first VM get already created).
>
> Thanks!
>
> Regards.
>
> Leonardo Bianconi
>

To add VMs you anyway need a running host in the cluster which means the 
cpu name and the architecture would be the host's.
So we can keep the cluster attributes - "cpu name" and "arch" consistent 
and allow them to be empty on creation.
>
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