[Ovirt-devel] oVirt Node Fedora Feature Status

[Damon L. Chesser]

On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 13:52 -0400, Perry Myers wrote:
> On 07/30/2011 10:16 AM, Perry Myers wrote:
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ovirt_Node_Spin
> 
> Wanted to give an update on this.
> 
> As mentioned earlier, we have approval from QE and Design teams.  In the
> absence of the Spin SIG being able to grant an approval, this was passed
> to release engineering who reviewed the spin.
> 
> Unfortunately, based upon the current release engineering rules (which
> are heavily oriented towards Desktop usage and not Server usage) oVirt
> Node really can't be accepted as is into Fedora as an official Spin.
> 
> Details are here:
> https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/4864
> 
> Basically in order to get this accepted by releng it looks like we'd
> have to make so many fundamental changes to what oVirt Node is, that it
> wouldn't be worth it in terms of leveraging the Fedora community for
> visibility and testing.  (For example, we already had to remove our
> blacklisting which increased image size from ~150MB to ~250MB)
> 
> I think a more reasonable plan would be to focus on oVirt Node as a
> derivative distribution that is focused on virtualization deployment.
> We can absolutely highlight that oVirt Node is built on Fedora and
> leverages the great work that the Fedora team/community has done, but it
> should be considered a separate distribution that is more closely
> associated with the oVirt brand/project umbrella.
> 
> >From that perspective, we would build oVirt Node ISOs in parallel with
> Fedora releases and host them directly with ovirt.org site.  And we'd
> only need one variant (the one with blacklisting enabled).
> 
> This should be community decision, not unilateral, so I'd like other
> people's thoughts on this.
> 
> Chime in :)
> 
> Perry

Just lurking here, however, I don't see a problem with what your
propose.  There is a dirth of good management interfaces for what
otherwise is a good product (KVM).  Look forward to testing it.


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