[Users] Possible to migrate from an existing KVM/Libvirt VM (installed in an LVM) ?

2012-02-10 Thread Morgan Cox
Hi Can an existing KVM/Libvirt VM (installed in an LVM) ever be migrated to an Ovirt node (offline migration is ok.) ? Also - when Ovirt is released - what OS is the going to be used for .iso for the node - i.e it is going to be based on Fedora or RHEL (centos) ? (i know you can get packages for

[Users] Ovirt Support life (timeframe) - upgrade path ?

2012-02-10 Thread Morgan Cox
Hi. As Fedora the default system that Ovirt is packaged for does this mean that Ovirt will have the same (short) support life of 18 months ? I ask as that is a bit short to have in enterprise .. I.e if I install Ovirt in Fedora 16 will support life run out when Fedora 16 runs out or will I be

[Users] 2 more questions regarding upgrade of the nodes

2012-02-10 Thread Morgan Cox
Hi. 1. Do we have to use Fedora16 for the nodes ? Or can be build a node on any distro ? 2. If the node is also doing the storage (i.e LVM) - when we upgrade Ovirt to the next version how will be keep the data ? Regards ___ Users mailing list

Re: [Users] Pxeboot

2012-02-10 Thread Mike Burns
On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 14:26 +0200, Cristian Falcas wrote: On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 03:09, Mike Burns mbu...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 17:05 -0800, Li, David wrote: Mike, Built it finally! Thanks a lot! Woot!

Re: [Users] 2 more questions regarding upgrade of the nodes

2012-02-10 Thread Mike Burns
On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 12:04 +, Morgan Cox wrote: Hi. 1. Do we have to use Fedora16 for the nodes ? Or can be build a node on any distro ? If you specifically mean the ovirt-node projects, then yes, it's Fedora only. There are other distros where work is being done to make them clients,

Re: [Users] Possible to migrate from an existing KVM/Libvirt VM (installed in an LVM) ?

2012-02-10 Thread Mike Burns
On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 11:32 +0100, Rutger Verhoeven wrote: Goed Question, I'm currently experimenting with a Fedora 16 server install in combination with KVM. Would be nice if we could migrate the current VM's to oVirt. Regards, Rutger. 2012/2/10 Morgan Cox

[Users] [USERS] 2 more questions regarding upgrade of the nodes

2012-02-10 Thread Morgan Cox
I got responses in IRC to my questions. A very nice person - Mburns basically answered all my questions - I had asked about SWRAID for the nodes too As always i'm amazed how easy it is to get answers in the opensource world Many thanks to everybody involved ! Regards 12:36] mburns morgan:

Re: [Users] Ovirt Support life (timeframe) - upgrade path ?

2012-02-10 Thread Mike Burns
I answered with my limited knowledge on IRC, but I'll answer here too for those who didn't see the IRC questions. On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 03:48 -0700, Robyn Bergeron wrote: On 02/10/2012 03:42 AM, Morgan Cox wrote: Hi. As Fedora the default system that Ovirt is packaged for does this

Re: [Users] Pxeboot

2012-02-10 Thread Cristian Falcas
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 14:35, Mike Burns mbu...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 14:26 +0200, Cristian Falcas wrote: On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 03:09, Mike Burns mbu...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 17:05 -0800, Li, David wrote: Mike, Built it

Re: [Users] Pxeboot

2012-02-10 Thread Mike Burns
On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 15:03 +0200, Cristian Falcas wrote: On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 14:35, Mike Burns mbu...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 14:26 +0200, Cristian Falcas wrote: On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 03:09, Mike Burns mbu...@redhat.com wrote:

[Users] Gluster Compatibility

2012-02-10 Thread Barry French
Hi, Is oVirt able to use glusterfs to access gluster shares. I know gluster can export NFS shares but using the glusterfs client provides redundancy over all gluster brick ip's, whereas standard NFS does not. Thanks. ___ Users mailing list

Re: [Users] Pxeboot - pwd/login issue

2012-02-10 Thread Mike Burns
On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 07:17 -0800, Li, David wrote: Hi Mike, I ran into the login/pwd problem again with this new build. Kernel option adminpw worked but only for a short time. I was asked to change pwd immediately after login but then rejected again after I did that. There was an

Re: [Users] Pxeboot - pwd/login issue

2012-02-10 Thread Li, David
Mike, ssh_pwauth=1 didn't work. The boot dropped into the dracut shell. I attached a snapshot so you can see the error. BOOTIF worked. I could ping the node but ssh was rejected. - David From: Mike Burns [mbu...@redhat.com] Sent: Friday, February 10,

[Users] Problem with required packages when installing ovirt-engine

2012-02-10 Thread Terry Phelps
I'm new here, and am trying to install ovirt-engine, as documented on ovirt.org/get-ovirt, and in the installation guide. I've worked with RPM-based distributions (RHEL, Centos, Scientific Linux) for quite a while, but have never worked with Fedora. Please tell me what I'm doing wrong, or failing

Re: [Users] Pxeboot - pwd/login issue

2012-02-10 Thread Li, David
Mike, I think I got a glimpse of the error message - something like persistent storage not available after I tried to login with the new passwd. Does this make sense? David -Original Message- From: Mike Burns [mailto:mbu...@redhat.com] Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 7:37 AM To: Li,

Re: [Users] Pxeboot - pwd/login issue

2012-02-10 Thread Mike Burns
On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 13:47 -0500, Mike Burns wrote: On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 10:38 -0800, Li, David wrote: Mike, ssh_pwauth=1 didn't work. The boot dropped into the dracut shell. I attached a snapshot so you can see the error. BOOTIF worked. I could ping the node but ssh was rejected.

Re: [Users] Problem with required packages when installing ovirt-engine

2012-02-10 Thread Steve Gordon
- Original Message - From: Terry Phelps tgphelp...@gmail.com To: users@ovirt.org Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 1:48:57 PM Subject: [Users] Problem with required packages when installing ovirt-engine I'm new here, and am trying to install ovirt-engine, as documented on

Re: [Users] Pxeboot - pwd/login issue

2012-02-10 Thread Mike Burns
On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 10:49 -0800, Li, David wrote: Mike, I think I got a glimpse of the error message - something like persistent storage not available after I tried to login with the new passwd. Does this make sense? Try this patch with the other one I just sent:

Re: [Users] Pxeboot - pwd/login issue

2012-02-10 Thread Li, David
Ok, what's the right cmd to get both? Do I have to start from scratch? -Original Message- From: Mike Burns [mailto:mbu...@redhat.com] Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 11:01 AM To: Li, David Cc: users@ovirt.org Subject: Re: [Users] Pxeboot - pwd/login issue On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 10:49

Re: [Users] Pxeboot - pwd/login issue

2012-02-10 Thread Li, David
ok, I have already patched like this. Hope this is ok: [lid@FC16-1 ovirt-node]$ git fetch http://gerrit.ovirt.org/p/ovirt-node refs/changes/07/1807/1 git checkout FETCH_HEAD remote: Counting objects: 57, done remote: Finding sources: 100% (39/39) remote: Total 39 (delta 28), reused 39 (delta

Re: [Users] Pxeboot - pwd/login issue

2012-02-10 Thread Mike Burns
On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 11:22 -0800, Li, David wrote: ok, I have already patched like this. Hope this is ok: [lid@FC16-1 ovirt-node]$ git fetch http://gerrit.ovirt.org/p/ovirt-node refs/changes/07/1807/1 git checkout FETCH_HEAD remote: Counting objects: 57, done remote: Finding sources:

[Users] Two fence devices per server.

2012-02-10 Thread Nathan Stratton
Just installed the latest oVirt, must admit you guys have done a great job. One issue I am having tho is that with my setup each server has 2 power supplies and the two supplies are one two different APC power strips. Is there any way to configure fencing to work with two devices per server?

Re: [Users] Ovirt Support life (timeframe) - upgrade path ?

2012-02-10 Thread Gary Scarborough
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Perry Myers pmy...@redhat.com wrote: On 02/10/2012 08:03 AM, Mike Burns wrote: I answered with my limited knowledge on IRC, but I'll answer here too for those who didn't see the IRC questions. On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 03:48 -0700, Robyn Bergeron wrote: On

Re: [Users] Problem with required packages when installing ovirt-engine

2012-02-10 Thread Gary Scarborough
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Terry Phelps tgphelp...@gmail.com wrote: I'm new here, and am trying to install ovirt-engine, as documented on ovirt.org/get-ovirt, and in the installation guide. I've worked with RPM-based distributions (RHEL, Centos, Scientific Linux) for quite a while, but

Re: [Users] Unable to add ISOs to default ISO storage domain

2012-02-10 Thread Spyro Polymiadis
$ mount ovirtmgr.rsp.com.au:/mnt/ISO test/ $ su - vdsm This account is currently not available. In /etc/passwd, the account does not have a valid shell... should it have? vdsm:x:36:36:Node Virtualization Manager:/var/lib/vdsm:/sbin/nologin - Original Message - From: Keith Robertson

Re: [Users] Unable to add ISOs to default ISO storage domain

2012-02-10 Thread Spyro Polymiadis
ok - here we go.. shed some light on the situation... it looks like the ISO mount is being mounted as user/group nobody on the hypervisor drwxr-xr-x. 3 nobody nobody 4096 Feb 10 02:52 ovirtmgr.foo.com:_mnt_ISO This might explain it because the vdsm user cannot read the iso as its mode 640

[Users] SOLVED: Re: Unable to add ISOs to default ISO storage domain

2012-02-10 Thread Spyro Polymiadis
Turns out the problem is something to do with using NFSv4 looking off the back of this thread https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nfs-utils/+bug/662711 I decided to try and re-mount the ISO domain user /rhev/data-centre/mnt/ovirtmgr.foo.com:_mnt/ISO and immediately the ISO appeared in

Re: [Users] SOLVED: Re: Unable to add ISOs to default ISO storage domain

2012-02-10 Thread Spyro Polymiadis
lol that first paragraph didnt make any sence... was supposed to read I decided to try and re-mount the ISO domain using mount -o vers=3 ovirtmgr.foo.com:/mnt/ISO /rhev/data-centre/mnt/ovirtmgr.foo.com:_mnt/ISO and the mount was correctly mounted with vdsm.kvm permissions and then immediately