On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 05:09:45PM +0100, Alan Pevec wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to add a new group in comps.xml to make it easier to install > minimal hypervisor based on Fedora. > It would include only basic virtualization software (libvirt and > qemu-kvm) and it would serve as a base to install virtualization > management stack on top of it. > Initial use-cases are: > - Fedora oVirt host where vdsm agent is installed on top of proposed > Virtualization Host group > Also oVirt Node livecd kickstart would use that group instead of the > current list of packages: > http://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=ovirt-node.git;a=blob;f=recipe/common-pkgs.ks;hb=HEAD > > - Openstack nova nodes where various openstack-* packages are > installed, depending on the node configuration (compute, controller, > images or object store service) > > Since comps groups can't be extended, flow is to choose Minimal on the > initial Anaconda screen, then Customize Now: > * http://apevec.fedorapeople.org/virtmin1.png > In the next step, under Base System category, new "Virtualization > Host" group is choosen. > * http://apevec.fedorapeople.org/virtmin2.png > > This should produce a working hypervisor with networking where > additional packages can be installed using yum. > > Questions for this list are: > - do you think there's value to have this "Virtualization Host" option > in the first Anaconda screen, among Graphical Desktop/Software > Development/Web Server and Minimal, to avoid the second step? > This list of options is defined in anaconda and each option maps to > a list of actual comps groups > - any better suggestions for the name of the group, maybe > "Virtualization Minimal", "Minimal Hypervisor", "Virtualization Node" > ? You don't mention the eisting 'Virtualization' group there, which is historically what people have installed when wanting a virtualization host. Admittedly this does include some desktop tools too. If introducing a new group for the host, then I'd say we might want to also change the existing group to be solely the client mgmt tools "Virtualization Client" ? It gets even more fuzzy when you wonder where the new 'GNOME Boxes' app will live - probably under 'GNOME' desktop I presume ? Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
