[Engine-devel] Instance Types Feature

[Oved Ourfalli]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tomas Jelinek" <tjelinek at redhat.com>
> To: "Oved Ourfalli" <ovedo at redhat.com>
> Cc: engine-devel at ovirt.org
> Sent: Tuesday, February 5, 2013 6:14:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Instance Types Feature
> 
> > 1. Why do we need a new set of permissions for "Create Instance"
> > and "Instance Owner"? Aren't the VmCreator role and the
> > UserVmManager role enough in these use-cases?
> so checked this with Andy:
> - Create Instance: it is a permission to actually see the instance
> types in the list of instance types when creating the VM and to be
> able to create a VM from that instance type
Wouldn't we want the instance types to be public, limiting the user on resources according to his Quota?
What worries me is that you currently need VmCreator role on a DC in order to be able to create VMs there, add disks, and etc.
So, now you would also need to have a CreateInstance permission.
And, in addition, you also need the right Quota.

Why not simplifying things, saying all instance types are public, and you only need VmCreator role, and the Quota for your new resources?

> - Instance Owner: if the user has this permission, he can edit the
> fields marked as "Basic User" in the table in the wiki (but not the
> others)
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Oved Ourfalli" <ovedo at redhat.com>
> To: "Tomas Jelinek" <tjelinek at redhat.com>
> Cc: engine-devel at ovirt.org
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 2:54:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [Engine-devel]  Instance Types Feature
> 
> Some questions:
> 1. Why do we need a new set of permissions for "Create Instance" and
> "Instance Owner"? Aren't the VmCreator role and the UserVmManager
> role enough in these use-cases?
> 2. iiuc, the internal implementation of instance types and images
> will be done using templates. However, I guess we plan to expose
> instance types and images as REST resources, right?
> 
> Thank you,
> Oved
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Tomas Jelinek" <tjelinek at redhat.com>
> > To: engine-devel at ovirt.org
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 3:09:51 PM
> > Subject: [Engine-devel]  Instance Types Feature
> > 
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > this is the proposed new feature called instance types:
> > http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Instance_Types
> > 
> > Long story short - it should basically split the VM template into:
> > - "hardware profile" called instance types
> > - "software profile" called image
> > 
> > This should enable to do something like: Create a new "small" VM
> > and
> > attach a disk with "RHEL + Postgres" installed.
> > 
> > Any comments are more than welcome!
> > 
> > Tomas
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