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 > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users