As a prospective user of oVirt I have noticed quite a lot of glaring
problems with the documentation, is it still being maintained? Since
outdated or incomplete documentation is often worse than nothing, a possible
solution would be to just link to the official Red Hat Virtualization
documentation.
Here are some examples I found after looking for less than 5 minutes:
1.
http://www.ovirt.org/documentation/
The top of this web page has two videos from 2012. The left one "oVirt Open
Virtualization Basics -- Single Machine Install" is a guide for the all in
one install. This is misleading as it no longer possible to perform an all
in one install since 3.6, and in general it would appear the oVirt project
does not support deploying oVirt to a single machine. The right video is a
guide on creating VMs using the GUI from 2012 which has since changed.
Overall both videos should be removed from the Documentation page as they
only confuse and mislead new users. I, and I am sure many other users would
greatly appreciate more current video guides.
2.
https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/how-to/hosted-engine/#fresh-install
Under the notes for this there is the following passage:
“Although hosted-engine and engine-setup use different wording for the admin
password ("'admin@internal' user password" vs "Engine admin
password"), they
are asking for the same thing. If you enter different passwords, the
hosted-engine setup will fail.”
Why is the wording different? This appears to be entirely unnecessary, and
also confusing as to why it is asking for the password a second time at all.
3.
https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/how-to/hosted-engine/#fresh-install
After finishing the hosted engine deployment script the guide states:
“After completing the OS installation on the VM, return to the host and
continue. The installer on the host will sync with the VM and ask for the
engine to be installed on the new VM:”
It is unclear how you are expected to access the VM, is the Web UI up at
this point? Do you need to use virsh to connect to the VM? The guide
should be explicit.
4.
https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/quickstart/quickstart-guide/#prerequi...
I. The documentation discusses Fedora 19, Fedora is currently on version 24
and 19 is EOL.
II. Under “Storage and Networking” there is no mention that oVirt requires
at least 3 GlusterFS bricks to achieve quorum.
III. Under “Virtual Machines” there is no mention of Windows 10, Fedora past
version 20, or RHEL/CentOS 7.X.
Or even send a fix, check this link at the bottom of the page:
"Edit this page on GitHub"
In the past you could simply edit the page in the wiki, now you
have to send a pull request using github, which is little harder.
Nir