[Users] Package installation error

[Alon Bar-Lev]

Simon?

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Neary" <dneary at redhat.com>
> To: "Sahina Bose" <sabose at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl at redhat.com>, users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 6:34:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [Users] Package installation error
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On 03/19/2013 05:24 AM, Sahina Bose wrote:
> > You are right - Gluster 3.4 is only required to manage gluster
> > clusters.
> >
> > Currently the question asked at setup is this :
> >
> > "The engine can be configured to present the UI in three different
> > application modes. virt [Manage virtualization only], gluster
> > [Manage
> > gluster storage only],
> > and both [Manage virtualization as well as gluster storage]" where
> > both
> > is the default.
> >
> > If this is confusing to the user, we can change this message.
> > Suggestions?
> 
> I would either:
> 
> (a) put "Virt" as the default, or
> (b) remove this question entirely - if someone is installing oVirt,
> assume they want to manage virt. If someone is installing Gluster,
> have
> an option during the Gluster install to have the oVirt management
> console.
> 
> If someone wants to manage both their Gluster bricks and their virt
> with
> oVirt, I would make that a post-install option to oVirt - perhaps
> with
> an extra package to install (which would depend on the later version
> of
> Gluster).
> 
> Cheers,
> Dave.
> 
> 
> 
> > On 03/19/2013 01:41 PM, Dave Neary wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On 03/19/2013 08:16 AM, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> >>> Now I am confused....
> >>> Do you or don't you need vdsm-gluster on your system?
> >>
> >> Allow me to clarify.
> >>
> >> There have been several messages from users since the oVirt 3.2
> >> release asking why they need Gluster 3.4 pre-releases to run
> >> oVirt.
> >>
> >> My understanding is that you don't need Gluster 3.4 unless you
> >> want to
> >> manage a Gluster cluster with oVirt.
> >>
> >> So my question is: are we sure that we are not leading users
> >> wrong,
> >> and confusing them during the installation & set-up process?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Dave.
> >>
> >
> 
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