[ovirt-devel] how to call the SW part of instance type?

[Yair Zaslavsky]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lior Vernia" <lvernia at redhat.com>
> To: "Tomas Jelinek" <tjelinek at redhat.com>
> Cc: devel at ovirt.org
> Sent: Monday, June 2, 2014 1:26:34 AM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-devel] how to call the SW part of instance type?
> 
> 
> 
> On 30/05/14 15:17, Tomas Jelinek wrote:
> > Hey all,
> > 
> > in the instance type feature [1] there are two parts, the "instance types"
> > (HW part of the machine) and the "something not sure how to call" (which
> > is basically a disk image with some SW related metadata like OS type). It
> > is inspired by the Amazon's "Instance Type" + "AMI".
> > 
> 
> Since it's similar to the existing concept of image maybe the two can be
> merged; e.g. the existing one could be extended, or another type of
> image could be added (I think there are quite a few already).
> 
> If not, then how about "Payload"? "VM Payload"? I'm thinking of instance
> type as a container, and this would be what goes inside the container.

IIRC we already have VM payload.

> 
> > Currently, the handling of the HW part is merged upstream (some small parts
> > missing but mostly there) but the software part is not. I'd like to start
> > implementing it and wanted to ask the community how to call it. Normally
> > it would be called "image", but since we already have images in oVirt it
> > would be confusing.
> > 
> > I see this options how to call it, please feel free to comment on them,
> > vote for some or propose a new name (please keep in mind that the HW part
> > is called "Instance Type").
> > 
> > - Instance Image
> > - Software Profile

+1 on that one (Software profile)

> > - OMI (oVirt Machine Image)
> > - System Image
> > - ITI (Instance Type Image)
> > 
> > Thank you,
> > Tomas
> > 
> > 
> > [1]: http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Instance_Types
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