Bug 1200736

Summary:	[RFE] Add image metadata to disks
Product:	[oVirt] ovirt-engine	Reporter:	Tomas Jelinek <tjelinek>
Component:	RFEs	Assignee:	Tal Nisan <tnisan>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Raz Tamir <ratamir>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	---	CC:	bugs, dfediuck, lsurette, rbalakri, srevivo, tjelinek, tnisan, ykaul, ylavi
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Last Closed:	2018-05-27 12:48:12 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Depends On:	1142762
Bug Blocks:	1106370, 1117489

Description Tomas Jelinek 2015-03-11 10:03:26 UTC

Currently the disks don't contain any metadata about what is installed on them.
In order to make the instance types+images really useful, the images also have to contain the following metadata:

- operating system
- timezone
- initrd_url, kernel_url, kernel_params

Comment 1 Allon Mureinik 2015-03-12 08:37:19 UTC

(In reply to Tomas Jelinek from comment #0)

> - operating system
> - timezone
> - initrd_url, kernel_url, kernel_params

This only seems relevant to bootable disks, no?

Comment 2 Tomas Jelinek 2015-03-12 09:00:07 UTC

> This only seems relevant to bootable disks, no?
yes

Comment 3 Allon Mureinik 2015-04-27 11:58:36 UTC

(In reply to Tomas Jelinek from comment #2)
> > This only seems relevant to bootable disks, no?
> yes

It that case, I really don't think it should be coupled to the disk entity.
Can't you represent it somewhere in the instance types solution?

Comment 4 Tomas Jelinek 2015-04-27 12:18:49 UTC

OS, timezone or kernel params are certainly not the hardware of the VM so it can not be on the instance type. This are all values which are dependent on what is actually installed on the specific disk.

Comment 5 Allon Mureinik 2015-04-27 12:22:25 UTC

(In reply to Tomas Jelinek from comment #4)
> OS, timezone or kernel params are certainly not the hardware of the VM so it
> can not be on the instance type. This are all values which are dependent on
> what is actually installed on the specific disk.
"installed on" means it has nothing to do with the disk ITSELF. We need a third place to save it.

Comment 6 Tomas Jelinek 2015-04-27 12:50:50 UTC

Can you please elaborate a bit more on how do you think it should be done?

Comment 7 Red Hat Bugzilla Rules Engine 2015-10-19 10:56:30 UTC

Target release should be placed once a package build is known to fix a issue. Since this bug is not modified, the target version has been reset. Please use target milestone to plan a fix for a oVirt release.

Comment 8 Yaniv Kaul 2015-11-26 16:09:22 UTC

We should match some of what Glance strives to store on the disks. Would make life easier later.
See http://docs.openstack.org/cli-reference/content/chapter_cli-glance-property.html .

Comment 9 Allon Mureinik 2017-01-24 21:47:56 UTC

I'd remove the bootable notion altogeher, frankly.
Although, perhaps a disk_content_element may be in order.

Comment 10 Doron Fediuck 2018-05-27 12:48:12 UTC

Closing old RFE's.
If relevant, please re-open and explain why.