On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 2:26 PM, Moti Asayag <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 5:17 PM, Fabian Deutsch <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hey,
>>
>> we've now merged a patch [0] to use and populate the VARIANT and
>> VARIANT_ID fields on Node.
>>
>> Currently the value is something like "ovirt-node-$BRANCH", i.e.
>> "ovirt-node-master" or "ovirt-node-3.6".
>>
>> I'd like to question if we should include the oVirt version in the ID,
>> or if we should just use "ovirt-node" without the version.
>>
>> From my POV the variant is not depending on a specific version, that
>> is why I'd like to discuss it.
>
>
> +1
> I agree the variant-id should not be a version specific. It should only
> describe the flavour of the host.
> I don't see why the engine should be aware of the specific version of it,
> especially since we'd like to have a unified process for all host types and
> furthermore for the same host type of different versions.
>
>>
>>
>> The oVirt version can still be retieved like on any other host i.e.
>> using rpm or maybe some file(?).
>
>
>  Resolving the supported version of the hypervisor should be done the same
> way as for any host by monitoring the capabilities as reported by VDSM.
>

Perfect, that all makes sense to me as well.

- fabian


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Fabian Deutsch <[email protected]>
RHEV Hypervisor
Red Hat
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