Re: [Users] Agents for Windows

On Dec 6, 2013, at 5:25 AM, Vinzenz Feenstra <vfeenstr(a)redhat.com <mailto:vfeenstr@redhat.com>> wrote: > I understand that you're disappointed and we're trying to make our > best to make the user experience better. You should be considering the > age of the project and what we're actually already providing. Yes not > everything is perfect, but we're working hard on improving it. > We're working in a collaborative way together with the community, if > you're missing something, there's always the possibility to help out. > Even if you're not a programmer you can help improving the experience. Bob pretty much said it all for me already…I’m not so much as disappointed in ovirt development as I am the marketing of it. ovirt is being marketed as an ESXi replacement when it surely isn’t. Probably 90%+ of what ESXi is used for is virtualizing Windows. Give ovirt in it’s current form to a typical Windows user and they’ll self destruct. The first issue with the agents as I can’t even find any documentation on what agents really need installing, and what features I’m getting with that agent! Another thing is, I would think that Fedora would be integrated enough with ovirt that it would be able to automatically detect it’s running on ovirt and install all the required agents automatically. I forgot my number 5) BIOS needs to work like a standard PC BIOS (as does ESXi) in allowing you to press F8 to get a boot menu or F12 for network boot. This run once stuff is silly. It works fine the first time I create a VM as there’s no bootable OS on the datastore, but if I need to re-PXE boot a VM, then I have to Run Once..OK, fine, but when the PXE completes it reboots, back into network boot, then I have to kill the VM and restart it normally. Under a PC (or ESXi) BIOS, I just hit F12, network boot, OS re-installs, then reboots normally. Much better user experience. I gave our Red Hat sales people feedback on this issue and was told it’s not going to change.