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[Paul Robert Marino]

By the way David have you ever done a Red Hat kickstart with the nobase option.
You get an OS install thats as stripped down as possible. you can even
create a node for ovirt which is smaller than the ESXi install base
last I checked. just be aware you will not have many of the tools you
would normally expect to see for example bind-utils isn't installed so
the box wont have nslookup or dig unless you install it.



On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 10:44 AM, David BERCOT <ovirt at bercot.org> wrote:
> 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.
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