[Users] Ovirt live USB - aka oVirt on a stick

[Moran Goldboim]

well, i think i have something to start playing with, it's still an 
*alpha* version and lots to be done.
go over the wiki [1] and try it out [2].

[1] http://wiki.ovirt.org/wiki/OVirt_Live
[2] http://ovirt.org/releases/3.1/tools/oVirt-Live-0.5.iso

On 09/13/2012 12:55 AM, Moran Goldboim wrote:
> In order To improve the ease of installation, we are working on two 
> new tools:
>
> 1. Fedora oVirt spin
>
> We are planning on integrating oVirt to a live fedora spin[1]
>
> This will simplify the the installation for new users. It will contain 
> the oVirt "AllInOne" [2] on top of a Fedora liveCD desktop.
> This will allow users to experiment with oVirt before later installing 
> it.
> The idea is user will install fedora from the CD, then answer the 
> questions of the all-in-one setup.
>
>
> 2. Simple demo environment
>
> As a second stage, for simple demo use cases, we want to take this one 
> step further.
> We'd like to extend this live spin to include a complete environment - 
> sample vm/template/iso/node,etc so that a user can boot from a USB 
> key  and have a complete environment that's pre-installed and 
> configured, this will probably will be done with a script calling one 
> of the APIs[3] to create it.
>
> The user would download an image, write it to a USB disk and then boot 
> it[4].
> the idea is user can copy this iso to a usb disk (or a qcow/vdmk) and
> Once booted the user will have a pre-installed, pre-configured oVirt 
> Engine, host and local storage domain complete with ISOs, VM and 
> template.
>
> any suggestions/help will be appreciated
>
> [1]http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Spins_Custom
> [2]http://wiki.ovirt.org/wiki/Feature/AllInOne
> [3]http://wiki.ovirt.org/wiki/CLI  |http://wiki.ovirt.org/wiki/SDK
> [4] bare metal or nested virtualization
>