[ovirt-users] Re: ovrt node kernel
On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 12:35 PM Giulio Casella <giulio(a)di.unimi.it> wrote:
Hello everybody,
using ovirt node many of the drivers to access storage are not in the
kernel drivers (anymore).
For example I have a bunch of (old) hypervisors (50+), with infiniband
nics, used to access storage. For all those hypervisors I abandoned
ovirt node, in favor of a base CentOS stream distro, with ovirt repo and
using kernel-plus repo (conatining all the needed stuff).
Obviously this is not a step I liked, I definitely prefer ovirt node.
Now my proposal: why don't include kernel-plus in ovirt-node, instead of
traditional kernel?
I know this would be a big change, and maybe @Sandro and all RH guys
(they have a more general perspective) can see some drawback I don't,
but... hey, I just tried! :-)
That's definitely an option - but I am not sure we want to _replace_ node
with this. Perhaps as an additional alternative. I do not follow closely
CentOS Stream development and Plus (I know there are/were discussions about
a kernel SIG etc., not sure about current status), and wonder what you might
want such a node-kernel-plus image to look like over time.
If you have a well-thought-out detailed proposal, I suggest to simply file
an RFE bug.
What you can do right now, if all you need is the driver, and already have it,
is make node use your driver. That's not as simple as with plain CentOS, but
doable - see this:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1834298
Best regards,
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Didi