[ovirt-users] New member and first question...

[David BERCOT]

Le Thu, 7 Aug 2014 10:29:20 -0400 (EDT),
Fabian Deutsch <fdeutsch at redhat.com> a écrit :
>----- Original Message -----
>> Am 07.08.2014 15:10, schrieb David BERCOT:
>> > Ah, great !!! And is there a Debian flavor ?
>
>No. Currently not.
>But Node became more stable over the last months, and you might want
>to try this snapshot build:
>http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-3.5-pre/iso/ovirt-node-iso-3.5.0.ovirt35.20140805.0.el6.iso
>
>> > It is my favorite distribution ;-)
>> 
>> Not yet, and I don't know if it is on the roadmap.
>> you could maybe create your own, it's basically
>> this workflow:
>> install $distro
>> throw out all unneeded stuff
>> install virt stuff (libvirt+vdsm)
>> apply hardening (selinux etc)
>> create iso
>> 
>> I go with centos minimal and customize
>> that myself, works really well.
>> 
>> I don't know if vdsm is already complete
>> platform independent (afaik it should be).
>> 
>> the initial development was all on fedora
>> and el6, so this is where it runs best atm.
>> 
>> but I know for sure there are plans to
>> make it distribution agnostic, but
>> I don't know if this includes a pre-created
>> iso for ovirt-node based on debian or gentoo.
>> 
>> maybe fabian can shed some light on the
>> future plans.
>
>The current Node can really only be created for Fedora related
>distrios, so CentOS, RHEL and Fedora itself. The reason for this is
>that all parts "the build process" is tailored around Fedora related
>tools. Namely kickstarts, and lviecd-tools.
>
>We are currently thinking about how we can change Node and make it
>more friendly, the distro agnostic idea also goes into this thoughts -
>but there is nothing concrete on that front yet.
>
>That's it from the Node side.
>
>- fabian

Thank you for all these answers.

I'm going to test this soon and I'll tell you about the results...

David.