On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 04:18:17PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > 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" > > ? +1 to the proposal above. > 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" ? [...] Old group renamed to "Virtualization Desktop Tools" maybe? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
