Features/Ovirt Node

ovirt-node

Summary

oVirt Node is a small scaled down version of Fedora used solely to hosts virtual machine guests.

Owner

• Name: David Huff
• email: dhuff@redhat.com

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora 12
• Last updated: 2009-07-16
• Percentage of completion: 77%

Detailed Description

oVirt Node is a small host image that provides libvirt service via KVM to hosts virtual machines. The Ovirt node can be run in standalone mode or in conjunction with the ovirt managment server, a web-based virtual machine management console. The ovirt Node Image is a livecd-based image that can be installed to the hosts physical storage, or run as a live image off a cd or usb key. This feature consists of three parts, ovirt-node.rpm, ovirt-node-recipe.rpm, ovirt-node-spin.iso

http://ovirt.org/

Benefit to Fedora

Easy way for users of Fedora and Ovirt to download Ovirt Node Image. Will not require and ISO image to be built and distributed in a RPM.

How To Test

• Detailed documentation is available at http://ovirt.org/documentation.html

User Experience

1. download spin burn to cd run ovirt node off livecd or install to bare-metal machine 2. install ovirt-node-recipe.rpm

  - pull down ovirt-node-image (spin)
  - convert to usb disk
  - set up pxe environment 
  - run ovirt node 

Dependencies

• • ovirt-node.rpm
  • ovirt-node-repo.rpm
  • ovirt-node-spin.iso

• RPM deps
  • matahari - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511148
  • anyterm - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=491694

Contingency Plan

• This is a brand new package, so no contingency plan is required.

Documentation

• Upstream web page: http://ovirt.org

Release Notes

• Fedora users now have access to a virtualization management infrastructure.

Comments and Discussion

• See Talk:Ovirt_Node
• #ovirt (freenode)
• ovirt-devel@redhat.com (public mailing list)