On 09/06/2012 11:58 AM, Garrett LeSage wrote:
Hi everyone,
Based on some feedback from the IRC meeting yesterday, I've scaled back the changes needed from oVirt for the download page and designed an alternate that we could use for the immediate future.
This looks very nice, Garrett. Some comments/thoughts: The minimum RAM for ovirt is 4GB. You can get by with less, but the engine-setup script won't run if it detects less RAM. There is a command line argument, --no-mem-check, that disables the minimum memory check. If we're going for simplicity, we may want to go with the ovirt-engine-setup-plugin-allinone as the suggested package to install. This way, you come out of these directions ready to create and run VMs. For a complete setup, it may be that the steps required are too many to include on this page. We could link to the quick start guide here: http://wiki.ovirt.org/wiki/Quick_Start_Guide. 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. I really like the "you can help us make ovirt easy to run everywhere" link -- we need that help!
http://people.redhat.com/glesage/oVirt/website/mockup-1/download-alt.html
It's based on what is currently on oVirt.org, with some minor changes: • simplification of the installation steps • inclusion of system requirements and some summary text at the top
As I wanted to communicate what each section would say, I wrote some filler text that should be somewhat close to the idea of what we might want to use. However, the text on this page is very rough in comparison to the other pages, so please keep this in mind.
Also, I should note that the original download design (for comparison) is at: http://people.redhat.com/glesage/oVirt/website/mockup-1/download.html
...and the background thoughts behind the original download page are at: http://people.redhat.com/glesage/oVirt/website/background-info/design-downlo...
Thanks! I'm looking forward to your feedback! Garrett _______________________________________________ Board mailing list Board@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/board
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