----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sharad Mishra" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 2:09:23 PM > Subject: [Users] Trying to understand oVirt terminology. > > While reading oVirt Wiki and other related docs, I came across > multiple > terms that meant the same thing (at least to me). Please take a look > and let me know where I am wrong. >
> 1) Difference between RHEV and oVirt node - oVirt node has VDSM and > libvirt whereas RHEV only has libvirt. > For terminology and architecture oVirt == RHEV. RHEV is a downstream product offering of oVirt. Later we'd expect to see other downstream offerings based off oVirt. RHEV users VDSM (which uses libvirt) in the same way that oVirt uses VDSM. > 2) 'RHEV-M server' is same as 'oVirt Engine Mgmt Server' is same as > 'oVirt Engine'. Yes > > 3) 'oVirt API' is same as 'REST API' is same as 'RHEV-M API' which > is > same as 'oVirt Engine API'. > Yes. > 4) 'Host Agent' is same as VDSM Yes > > 5) 'oVirt Node API' is same as VDSM API. Yes. > > Question ) Guest Agent is running on VM. How does it get installed > there? > for RHEL guests it's part of the RHEL distribution (shipped on RHN for RHEL5&6) for other distros it's packaged in other ways. eg. we have the guest agent for Fedora packaged in our nightly builds. > Regards, > Sharad Mishra > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
