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

> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tomas Jelinek" <tjelinek(a)redhat.com&gt; > Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 8:17:27 AM > > 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". > > 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) IMO, any of the three above will do. > - System Image this is too confusing - we already have 'System' in the application (e.g. the 'System' tree, 'System' permissions, etc.) and we already have 'Image' in the application (in multiple places, actually, which is confusing already). Introducing a new 'System Image' type that has nothing to do with the existing 'System' or with the existing 'Image' is very confusing. > - ITI (Instance Type Image) this is confusing as well since it might be considered part / sub-type of the Instance Types business entity, which is wrong.

> > 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