new comps group proposal: Virtualization Host

Alan Pevec apevec at gmail.com
Mon Jan 23 16:27:44 UTC 2012


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.

Alan


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