Re: [ovirt-devel] how to call the SW part of instance type?

From: "Lior Vernia" <lvernia(a)redhat.com&gt; To: "Tomas Jelinek" <tjelinek(a)redhat.com&gt; Cc: devel(a)ovirt.org Sent: Monday, June 2, 2014 1:26:34 AM Subject: Re: [ovirt-devel] how to call the SW part of instance type? On 30/05/14 15:17, Tomas Jelinek wrote: > Hey all, > > in the instance type feature [1] there are two parts, the "instance types" > (HW part of the machine) and the "something not sure how to call" (which > is basically a disk image with some SW related metadata like OS type). It > is inspired by the Amazon's "Instance Type" + "AMI". > Since it's similar to the existing concept of image maybe the two can be merged; e.g. the existing one could be extended, or another type of image could be added (I think there are quite a few already). If not, then how about "Payload"? "VM Payload"? I'm thinking of instance type as a container, and this would be what goes inside the container.

> Currently, the handling of the HW part is merged upstream (some small parts > missing but mostly there) but the software part is not. I'd like to start > implementing it and wanted to ask the community how to call it. Normally > it would be called "image", but since we already have images in oVirt it > would be confusing. > > I see this options how to call it, please feel free to comment on them, > vote for some or propose a new name (please keep in mind that the HW part > is called "Instance Type"). > > - Instance Image > - Software Profile

> - OMI (oVirt Machine Image) > - System Image > - ITI (Instance Type Image) > > Thank you, > Tomas > > > [1]: http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Instance_Types > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/devel