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

On 05/30/2014 01:07 PM, Einav Cohen wrote: >> ----- 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. And why not 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 > > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/devel