[ovirt-users] Ovirt node or Linux standard

[Douglas Schilling Landgraf]

Hi Kevin,

On 05/13/2015 02:53 AM, Kevin C wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> There is any reason to choose to install a CentOS 6/7 and add it to oVirt
> Manager instead of an oVirt Node ? It's just for managability or there is
> other technical reasons ?

oVirt Node is a 'ready to go' option, as soon you complete the 
installation it will have all packages needed for the hypervisor in a 
read-only OS (focused in oVirt), using less space possible. It also 
contain the Text User Interface (TUI) that helps administrators to do 
management tasks, like initial network, hosted-engine, etc. On the other 
hand, adding CentOS/Fedora and others distros as hypervisor via Engine 
will automatically download the packages needed. In this case, 
configuring hosted-engine and others management options will obviously 
without the TUI.

To upgrade the ovirt-node as read-only distro, you can:

- boot the new iso into the system
- Download and install the new ovirt-node RPM into engine and trigger 
the upgrade via engine.

We provide nightly builds for testing:
http://jenkins.ovirt.org/job/ovirt-node_master_create-iso-el7_merged/

Fell free to reach us with your experience using the oVirt Node.

-- 
Cheers
Douglas