[ovirt-users] Re: oVirt Hosted Engine Offline Deployment

You would do good to mirror everything that oVirt is using, especially if you want to install/rebuild while remaining offline. The 1.1 GB file you mention is the oVirt appliance initial machine image, which unfortunately seems to get explicitly deleted from time to time, most likely the official clean-up scripts I use, whenever a deployment failed and I want to restart from a clean sheet. If you're operating disconnected, security bugs won't scare you, which is where most of the updates are coming from. A good frozen CentOS7 repo state can last a long time, but sometimes even those are glitchy so you need to test thoroughly before going completely offline. oVirt 4.3 is *very* stable (nothing done any more), but not free of bugs. You may be lucky and in an offline mode the combination may be good... until you want online again or add hardware too novel. It's how I operate currently with most of my oVirt installations: CentOS7.latest and oVirt-4.3.last-with-bugs, because I want to test stuff in the VMs not underneath the hypervisor (and I am mostly using recycled producation hardware to support a lab).