revised download page mockup

[Jason Brooks]

On 09/06/2012 11:58 AM, Garrett LeSage wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Based on some feedback from the IRC meeting yesterday, I've scaled back
> the changes needed from oVirt for the download page and designed an
> alternate that we could use for the immediate future.

This looks very nice, Garrett.

Some comments/thoughts:

The minimum RAM for ovirt is 4GB. You can get by with less, but the 
engine-setup script won't run if it detects less RAM. There is a command 
line argument, --no-mem-check, that disables the minimum memory check.

If we're going for simplicity, we may want to go with the 
ovirt-engine-setup-plugin-allinone as the suggested package to install. 
This way, you come out of these directions ready to create and run VMs. 
For a complete setup, it may be that the steps required are too many to 
include on this page. We could link to the quick start guide here: 
http://wiki.ovirt.org/wiki/Quick_Start_Guide.

Right now, oVirt only works with Fedora and CentOS/RHEL. We shouldn't 
give people the wrong idea about multi-distro possibilities. Someone 
could get the engine app running on jboss on a different platform, but 
vdsm, an essential component for doing anything w/ ovirt, is very much 
tied to fedora/el right now.

I really like the "you can help us make ovirt easy to run everywhere" 
link -- we need that help!




>
> http://people.redhat.com/glesage/oVirt/website/mockup-1/download-alt.html
>
> It's based on what is currently on oVirt.org, with some minor changes:
> • simplification of the installation steps
> • inclusion of system requirements and some summary text at the top
>
> As I wanted to communicate what each section would say, I wrote some
> filler text that should be somewhat close to the idea of what we might
> want to use. However, the text on this page is very rough in comparison
> to the other pages, so please keep this in mind.
>
>
> Also, I should note that the original download design (for comparison)
> is at:
> http://people.redhat.com/glesage/oVirt/website/mockup-1/download.html
>
> ...and the background thoughts behind the original download page are at:
> http://people.redhat.com/glesage/oVirt/website/background-info/design-download.html
>
>
>
> Thanks! I'm looking forward to your feedback!
> Garrett
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