ovirt node is a small minimal os and will wipe your manually installed
packages on an upgrade.

If you want local packages that are critical for you you should install
full centos/rhev server and use that as a virtualization node. (This is
what i did since i wanted more control of the virtulization nodes)


/Johan

On Tue, 2017-12-19 at 01:54 +0200, Andrei V wrote:
> Hi !
>
> I have updated today oVirt node 4.1 via yum, installed from oVirt
> DVD.
> Update was a minor version change.
> Now all software I had installed, including mc, Samba, etc. have been
> lost. Looks like oVirt node is being updated with whole system 600MB
> image, not just with rpms (please correct if I'm wrong here).
>
> Keeping my manually installed software is crucial, since it has UPS
> and
> hardware RAID monitor.
>
> Can anyone suggest if this is normal behavior or a single glitch ?
>
> So far I found only this instruction for node installation:
> https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/install-guide/chap-oVirt_Nodes/
>
> And it uses pre-made DVD ISO, not manual install with RHEL/CentOS DVD
> and RPMs from yum repository.
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestion(s).
> Andrei
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