[ovirt-users] [ovirt-devel] Building vdsm within Fedora

[Itamar Heim]

On 09/25/2014 04:06 PM, Dan Kenigsberg wrote:
> I don't belive Vdsm is soon to be used by anything outside oVirt. But if
> software purists win, oVirt would publish only tarballs.
> Fedora/Debian/whatever would build, package, and deploy them all, and
> the ovirt repo would become redundant.
>
> I did not expect to hear much support for keeping Vdsm in Fedora. Given
> what I've heard, how about taking the in-between road?
>
> - Keep Vdsm in Fedora, abiding to Fedora rules.
> - Hope that Engine and qemu-kvm-rhev join, too.

we did the work to add engine, but it was useless without its gui, and 
was impossible to add gwt to fedora.
qemu-kvm-rhev is not needed in fedora as fedora has a full blown 
qemu-kvm with all features enabled.
you only need qemu-kvm-rhev on .el6 hosts.

> - Until they do, build vdsm.rpm with non-Fedora quirks (such as the
>    qemu-kvm-rhev requirement)