[Users] oVirt Node ISO

[Itamar Heim]

On 12/09/2013 08:58 PM, Bob Doolittle wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The point of "Node" is that it should be like an appliance. You should
> not care what is "under the covers". You just use it as a back-end
> appliance that talks to oVirt. So it should not matter what version of
> OS it runs, right?
>
> If you start doing things that are particular to the OS, two major
> disadvantages come to mind:
> 1. You will start "bloating" the system by adding new dependencies. This
> dilutes the value of a minimal node that minimizes management requirements
> 2. You will diverge from what's been tested by the oVirt QA team. This
> increases the risk of your deployment.
>
> Since Node is supposed to be an appliance, I would prefer that the oVirt
> team focus their energies on making it as small and robust as possible,
> rather than putting their energy into multiple OS versions of Node.

not sure i agree. there are differences between the fedora and .el6 
distro's, especially around things like testing of backward 
compatibility for live migration between different versions (for a clean 
upgrade path).
the fedora one covers newer features / fast moving
the .el6 one is more robust / tested.

so depends on what you are trying to do.

>
> -Bob
>
> On 12/09/2013 06:31 AM, Simon Barrett wrote:
>>
>> Are there plans to release an el6 iso for oVirt Node 3.0.3-1-1?
>>
>> I only see the fc19 version currently:
>>
>> Index of /releases/3.3/iso
>>
>> [ICO]     Name    Last modified Size        Description
>>
>> [DIR]      Parent Directory                -
>>
>> [ ] ovirt-node-iso-3.0.1-1.0.1.vdsm.el6.iso  28-Aug-2013 04:56
>>           219M
>>
>> [ ] ovirt-node-iso-3.0.1-1.0.1.vdsm.fc19.iso 28-Aug-2013 04:56
>>           250M
>>
>> [ ] ovirt-node-iso-3.0.1-1.0.2.vdsm.el6.iso  11-Sep-2013 05:18
>>           219M
>>
>> [ ] ovirt-node-iso-3.0.1-1.0.2.vdsm.fc19.iso 11-Sep-2013 05:19
>>           250M
>>
>> [ ] ovirt-node-iso-3.0.3-1.1.vdsm.fc19.iso   27-Nov-2013 07:54
>>           252M
>>
>> Many Thanks,
>>
>> Simon
>>
>>
>>
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