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

[Einav Cohen]

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tomas Jelinek" <tjelinek at redhat.com>
> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 8:17:27 AM
> 
> 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".
> 
> 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
> - OMI (oVirt Machine Image)

IMO, any of the three above will do.

> - System Image

this is too confusing - we already have 'System' in the application (e.g. the 
'System' tree, 'System' permissions, etc.) and we already have 'Image' in the 
application (in multiple places, actually, which is confusing already). 
Introducing a new 'System Image' type that has nothing to do with the existing 
'System' or with the existing 'Image' is very confusing. 

> - ITI (Instance Type Image)

this is confusing as well since it might be considered part / sub-type of the 
Instance Types business entity, which is wrong. 

> 
> Thank you,
> Tomas
> 
> 
> [1]: http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Instance_Types
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