[ovirt-users] Q: oVirt Node Update Wiped my Updates

[Johan Bernhardsson]

The differences are here:
https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/install-guide/chap-Introduction_to_
Hypervisor_Hosts/

And also the different guides on how to install them.

/Johan

On Tue, 2017-12-19 at 01:06 +0100, Johan Bernhardsson wrote:
> ovirt node is a small minimal os and will wipe your manually
> installed
> packages on an upgrade.
> 
> If you want local packages that are critical for you you should
> install
> full centos/rhev server and use that as a virtualization node. (This
> is
> what i did since i wanted more control of the virtulization nodes)
> 
> 
> /Johan
> On Tue, 2017-12-19 at 01:54 +0200, Andrei V wrote:
> > 
> > Hi !
> > 
> > I have updated today oVirt node 4.1 via yum, installed from oVirt
> > DVD.
> > Update was a minor version change.
> > Now all software I had installed, including mc, Samba, etc. have
> > been
> > lost. Looks like oVirt node is being updated with whole system
> > 600MB
> > image, not just with rpms (please correct if I'm wrong here).
> > 
> > Keeping my manually installed software is crucial, since it has UPS
> > and
> > hardware RAID monitor.
> > 
> > Can anyone suggest if this is normal behavior or a single glitch ?
> > 
> > So far I found only this instruction for node installation:
> > https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/install-guide/chap-oVirt_Nodes/
> > 
> > And it uses pre-made DVD ISO, not manual install with RHEL/CentOS
> > DVD
> > and RPMs from yum repository.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance for any suggestion(s).
> > Andrei
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