Hi Douglas,

Why do we need clean yum cache before installing packages during host installation? It could cause a ssh timeout somtimes. On my test VM, it needs several minutes do download yum metatada. Please see the test below:

[root@host1 tmp]# time yum update qemu-kvm Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit fedora/metalink | 8.6 kB 00:00 fedora | 4.2 kB 00:00 fedora/primary_db | 14 MB 00:11 fedora/group_gz | 434 kB 00:00 ovirt-nightly | 1.3 kB 00:00 ovirt-nightly/primary | 31 kB 00:00 ovirt-stable | 1.3 kB 00:00 ovirt-stable/primary | 15 kB 00:00 updates/metalink | 4.6 kB 00:00 updates | 4.7 kB 00:00 updates/primary_db | 5.9 MB 03:28 updates/group_gz | 434 kB 00:21 ovirt-nightly 183/183 ovirt-stable 69/69 No Packages marked for Update

real 4m33.527s user 0m5.741s sys 0m0.772s

[root@host1 tmp]# time yum update qemu-kvm Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit No Packages marked for Update

real 0m1.184s user 0m1.048s sys 0m0.115s

Thanks! Mark