new comps group proposal: Virtualization Host

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Fri Feb 3 19:29:44 UTC 2012


Alan Pevec (apevec at gmail.com) said: 
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Right, I forgot to mention why existing "Virtualization" is not good
> enough for this use-cases and it's exactly because it includes GUI
> stuff which is not needed on the minimal hypervisor install.
> 
> > 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 ?
> 
> Renaming current "Virtualization" to "Virtualization Client" makes sense.
> I would put new Boxes into both Virt.Client and GNOME groups, list of
> packages are not exclusive.

Got a patch for this?

Bill


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