----- Original Message ----- > From: "Fabian Deutsch" <[email protected]> > To: "Barak Azulay" <[email protected]> > Cc: "Alon Bar-Lev" <[email protected]>, [email protected], "Douglas Landgraf" > <[email protected]>, "node-devel" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 2:21:57 PM > Subject: Re: [node-devel] Versioning of oVirt Node > > Am Montag, den 31.03.2014, 06:19 -0400 schrieb Barak Azulay: > > > Had you created your tiny distribution based on busybox, libvirt, > > vdsm etc... > > > cross compile all from sources, then you would have been right, as > > it is our > > > own distribution that fully controlled by the ovirt community. > > > > If a user need to customize the hypervisor he can use a regular OS of > > his choice configured and tailored to his needs (Fedora ..., > > CentOS ...Debian, Gentoo ...) > > This is a valid use case and effort for the community. > > > > While having a black box hypervisor, should be the exact fit to just > > run VMs in oVirt environment. > > Why to handle specific OS configuration in a much more complex and > > less intuitive environment to manage ? > > > > Guys I really think this entirely misses the black-box approach. > > > > I don't mind moving to our own tiny distro as long as it's a single > > image to release and maintain > > Well, Node _is_ actually a tiny distro, just based on some package based > on some existing one.
I do not think that it is tiny distro... but let's not get into this argument :) > > > The effort of maintaining multiple ovirt-nodes based on distro and > > distro-version and ovirt-version creates an unmanageable test matrix > > that all the community might loose from > > I partially agree here. > From my POV the Fedora based Node is very useful for us to develop Node, > sooner or later the changes we've got in Fedora will land in CentOS, > thus devleoping on Fedora is a preparation for being able to deliver a > (stable) CentOS based Node. > > So IMO we should continue to develop on Fedora, but we might want to > consider to keep to only deliver the CentOS based Node. > The Fedora based build could be seen as nightlies. If we consider single base distribution (aka blackbox which is not black at all...), and you agree that centos is a fit, I do not see any reason to invest resources in fedora. > > - fabian > _______________________________________________ node-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/node-devel
