[Users] oVirt Node ISO

[Simon Barrett]

I would rather stick with the el6 iso if possible for the reasons mentioned in the previous email. However, if there are no plans to continue with the production of el6 ovirt-node iso's I'll switch to fc19.

So I suppose the question still stands, are there plans to release an el6 iso for oVirt Node 3.0.3-1-1?

Many thanks.


-----Original Message-----
From: Itamar Heim [mailto:iheim at redhat.com] 
Sent: 09 December 2013 19:47
To: Bob Doolittle; Simon Barrett; users at ovirt.org; Fabian Deutsch
Subject: Re: [Users] oVirt Node ISO

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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