On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 12:04 PM Sandro Bonazzola <[email protected]>
wrote:

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> 2018-06-28 15:42 GMT+02:00 Nir Soffer <[email protected]>:
>
>> I want to share the current state of oVirt on Fedora 28, hopefully it will
>> save time for other developers.
>>
>
> Thanks for the summary!
>

+1


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>
>
>>
>>
>> 1. Why should I run oVirt on Fedora 28?
>>
>> - Fedora is the the base for future CentOS. The bugs we find *today* on
>> Fedora 28
>> are the bugs that we will not have next year when we try oVirt on CentOS.
>>
>> - I want to contribute to projects that require python 3. For example,
>> virt-v2v
>>   require python 3.6 in upstream. If you want to contribute you need to
>> test
>>   it on Fedora 28.
>>
>> - I need to develop with latest libvirt and qemu. One example is
>> incremental
>>   backup, you will need Fefora 28 to work on this.
>>
>> - CentOS is old and boring, I want to play with the newest bugs :-)
>>
>>
>> 2. How to install oVirt with Fedora 28 hosts
>>
>>     Warning: ugly hacks bellow!
>>
>> - Install ovirt-release-master.rpm on all hosts
>>
>> dnf install
>> http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/yum-repo/ovirt-release-master.rpm
>>
>> - Install or build engine on CentOS 7.5 (1804)[1]
>>
>
Why have only half the fun? Engine works on fc28.


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>> - When provisioning a host, make sure you have lvm2-2.02.177-5.fc28
>>   without it, no block storage you[2]
>>
>
> This has been pushed to stable 3 days ago, so just "dnf update --refresh"
> should be enough to consume it
>
>
>
>>
>> - When adding a host, disable "Configure host firewall" - it does not
>> work now
>>   I hope that Sandro team will fix this issue soon.
>>
>
> Tracked here https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1381135
>
>
>
>>
>> - Adding a host will fail, because without firewall setup, port 54321 is
>> not reacable.
>>   to fix this, configure the firewall manually, or disable it
>>
>>     iptables -F
>>
>> This is pretty lame because you have to apply it again after restart, but
>> it was
>> good enough for now.
>>
>> - Because the host was not reachable, we don't configure the host network
>>   so the host will be non-operational.
>>   To fix this, open host > network > setup networks and assign ovirtmgmt
>>   to the host management nic. The host will become UP after that.
>>   I hope that Dan team will fix it soon.
>>
>> - Adding storage will fail because sanlock selinux issue[3]
>>   To fix, set selinux to permissive mode:
>>
>>   setenforce 0
>>
>
> Please add a custom rule to selinux instead of disabling it while waiting
> for a fix, so you can catch more selinux issues masked by this.
>
>
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>> At this point you should have a working setup.
>>
>>
>> 3. Building and instaling vdsm from source on Fedora 28
>>
>> - Install build dependencies using
>>
>>   dnf install `cat automation/check-patch.packages.fc28`
>>
>> - Clean the source (needed if you rerun ./autogen.sh with different
>> options)
>>
>>   git clean -dxf
>>
>> - Configure vdsm with hooks - for some reason 2 hooks are required
>>   on Fedora but not on EL.
>>
>>   ./autogen.sh --system --enable-hooks
>>
>> - Build
>>
>>   make
>>   make rpm
>>
>> - Install the packages at /home/user/rpmbuild/RPMS/{noarch,x86_64}
>>
>> - if vdsm was never installed, you need to configure and enable it
>>
>>   vdsm-tool configure --force
>>   systemctl enable vdsmd
>>   systemctl start vdsmd
>>
>> At this point you can test the new bugs you added to vdsm :-)
>>
>>
>> [1] I did not try to install engine on Fedora 28. I guess engine folks can
>> share if there are issues with this.
>>
>> [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1575762
>> LVM team fixed the issue couple of hours after I asked about it in #lvm
>> We had a build for testing couple of days later.
>>
>> [3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1593853
>> We are still waiting for selinux folks response.
>>
>> Happy hacking!
>>
>> Nir
>>
>>
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