Garrett, This is great: it's clean, it's visually appealing, and it's concise. Finding non-Fedora distro instructions is easy, and the fact that the page solicits help for other distributions makes it (hopefully) apparent that it's not just a Fedora/RHEL party. Jon -- Jon Benedict Technical Marketing Engineer Red Hat Technologies Data Center Platforms Blog http://captainkvm.com | Twitter @CaptainKVM On 9/6/12 2:58 PM, "Garrett LeSage" <garrett(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:

Hi, On 09/11/2012 11:33 PM, Jason Brooks wrote: 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. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary Community Action and Impact Open Source and Standards, Red Hat Ph: +33 9 50 71 55 62 / Cell: +33 6 77 01 92 13

On 09/11/2012 11:33 PM, Jason Brooks wrote: Thanks! Thanks for the correction! It was a placeholder to express the desire for minimum requirements on that page — but accuracy even on mockups is a great thing, so I'm modifying them now. Do you know the other requirements too? Such as hard disk space, etc. — or anything I might be leaving out…? That's the intent of the original download mockup: http://people.redhat.com/glesage/oVirt/website/mockup-1/download.html & Info: http://people.redhat.com/glesage/oVirt/website/background-info/design-dow... From my understanding, it'll take effort from multiple people to get the all-in-one install ISO working how we want it to. The goal of the download-alt mockup was to make sure we can move forward with the website and still launch in the near future, even if the all-in-one ISO isn't quite yet ready. (Hopefully we can move to the fully packaged version soon, as I think it's conceptually friendlier to those installing oVirt.) Agreed. That's why I focused on using Fedora in both download page mockups and added a plea-for-help. When other OSes are 100% *fully* supported in an all-in-one install ISO, we could then (perhaps) add some way to switch the page when we're comfortable enough that they work. Until that time, I firmly believe having a recommended install path with links to secondary support is fine. For the time being, "other distros" just means having the management UI running on various platforms, and that everyone using oVirt is using Fedora/RHEL/RHEL-derivative doing the heavy lifting on the servers, right? What's the general plan & timeframe for getting VDSM et al. working cross-distro, so that all of oVirt can run everywhere? Garrett

On 09/12/2012 08:17 PM, Jason Brooks wrote: Aha, okay. That's also great, and it's probably a requirement for an all-in-one installer that would allow someone to download just one ISO to install: A) All of oVirt (this would be the default) B) The server part ("node") C) The web-based management UI (Another approach could be to _always_ install everything on each machine, and oVirt could run in one of the above modes.) Great idea! Garrett