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

[Andrew Cathrow]

On 05/30/2014 01:07 PM, Einav Cohen wrote:
>> ----- 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.

And why not image?

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