Re: [Users] Virtualized hypervisor?
Hi Peter, I recently wrote a blog post about it: http://javadump.wordpress.com/2013/09/12/howto-nested-kvm-based-virtual-setup-with-ovirt/ You can also use the all in one plugin, as Itamar suggested but still you would need nested KVM enabled if you run this in a VM. Regards, Mike - Original Message - Hi All, my name is Peter van der Meulen from the Netherlands. I'm (self paced) studying the RHEV guides and course material to take the RHEV certifiation exam. Installing the RHEV manager is not a problem, the hypervisor is, however, another story. I don't have a seperate physical machine for the hypervisor. I was told that it is possible to install the RHEV hypervisor in a virtual machine using Ovirt kernel modules. Could someone point me towards documentation on this issue and what kernel modules to install? Thanks in advance! Best regards, Peter ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [Users] Virtualized hypervisor?
Hello Itamar, Thank you for responding. The only machine i have is my Windows 7 pc (Intel i7, 16Gb ram). I'm running the manager in Virtualbox and want to run the hypervisor in Virtualbox or VMware Workstation, just for study purposes. I'm using RHEL6 for the manager and wanted to use it for the Hypervisor as well. So, unfortunatly i don't have an extra physical machine available. Hi Peter, please note you replied me in private, so folks on the mailing list still replying to you don't have this info, and answering on a different use case. i suggest replying to my question on the mailing list for clarification. Thanks, Itamar Best regards, Peter Origineel Bericht Van : ih...@redhat.com Datum : 30/10/2013 16:01 Aan : ru...@planet.nl Cc : users@ovirt.org Onderwerp : Re: [Users] Virtualized hypervisor? On 10/30/2013 12:12 AM, ru...@planet.nl wrote: Hi All, my name is Peter van der Meulen from the Netherlands. I'm (self paced) studying the RHEV guides and course material to take the RHEV certifiation exam. Installing the RHEV manager is not a problem, the hypervisor is, however, another story. I don't have a seperate physical machine for the hypervisor. I was told that it is possible to install the RHEV hypervisor in a virtual machine using Ovirt kernel modules. Could someone point me towards documentation on this issue and what kernel modules to install? Thanks in advance! Best regards, Peter ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users which OS are you using? if you have a single physical box, you can try installing the allinone setup plugin rpm which will deploy host+engine on same box. ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [Users] Virtualized hypervisor?
Hello All, i have gotten some good replies and suggestions on my question en i'll be on them next weekend. Thanks to all and íll post my results later. Have a good weekend all! Peter Origineel Bericht Van : mkole...@redhat.com Datum : 31/10/2013 07:43 Aan : ru...@planet.nl Cc : users@ovirt.org Onderwerp : Re: [Users] Virtualized hypervisor? Hi Peter, I recently wrote a blog post about it: http://javadump.wordpress.com/2013/09/12/howto-nested-kvm-based-virtual-setup-with-ovirt/ You can also use the all in one plugin, as Itamar suggested but still you would need nested KVM enabled if you run this in a VM. Regards, Mike Hi All, my name is Peter van der Meulen from the Netherlands. I'm (self paced) studying the RHEV guides and course material to take the RHEV certifiation exam. Installing the RHEV manager is not a problem, the hypervisor is, however, another story. I don't have a seperate physical machine for the hypervisor. I was told that it is possible to install the RHEV hypervisor in a virtual machine using Ovirt kernel modules. Could someone point me towards documentation on this issue and what kernel modules to install? Thanks in advance! Best regards, Peter ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [Users] Virtualized hypervisor?
Hallo Peter, Hello Itamar, Thank you for responding. The only machine i have is my Windows 7 pc (Intel i7, 16Gb ram). I'm running the manager in Virtualbox and want to run the hypervisor in Virtualbox or VMware Workstation, just for study purposes. I'm using RHEL6 for the manager and wanted to use it for the Hypervisor as well. So, unfortunatly i don't have an extra physical machine available. I have same machine specs @home and have installed Fedora 19 on a separate partition to play with oVirt. Depending on where you place your VMs you don't need much room for that. Isos you can leave on your Windows drive(s) and if you have a NAS you can put the VM storage (NFS) on it. If not then you can use thin provisioning to keep the size down but anything from 50-100G will get you a decent working oVirt installation on either Fedora 19 or Centos-6.4 Running a complete ovirt env in virtualbox is not possible since you can't have nested virt on Virtualbox. The engine will run but you will have nothing to play around with! A nested virt env using a core i7 work quite well so it might be worth the trouble and time spent on installing fedora/centos on a new partition and start using dual boot. With an all-in-one setup you can do nested virt. Beware Centos needs a newer kernel than the 2.6.32.abc. Look at the elrepo repository for newer, upto 3.11.x. Regards, Joop ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
[Users] Virtualized hypervisor?
Hi All, my name is Peter van der Meulen from the Netherlands. I'm (self paced) studying the RHEV guides and course material to take the RHEV certifiation exam. Installing the RHEV manager is not a problem, the hypervisor is, however, another story. I don't have a seperate physical machine for the hypervisor. I was told that it is possible to install the RHEV hypervisor in a virtual machine using Ovirt kernel modules. Could someone point me towards documentation on this issue and what kernel modules to install? Thanks in advance! Best regards, Peter ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [Users] Virtualized hypervisor?
On 10/30/2013 12:12 AM, ru...@planet.nl wrote: Hi All, my name is Peter van der Meulen from the Netherlands. I'm (self paced) studying the RHEV guides and course material to take the RHEV certifiation exam. Installing the RHEV manager is not a problem, the hypervisor is, however, another story. I don't have a seperate physical machine for the hypervisor. I was told that it is possible to install the RHEV hypervisor in a virtual machine using Ovirt kernel modules. Could someone point me towards documentation on this issue and what kernel modules to install? Thanks in advance! Best regards, Peter ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users which OS are you using? if you have a single physical box, you can try installing the allinone setup plugin rpm which will deploy host+engine on same box. ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [Users] Virtualized hypervisor?
On 30/10/13 00:12, ru...@planet.nl wrote: Hi All, my name is Peter van der Meulen from the Netherlands. I'm (self paced) studying the RHEV guides and course material to take the RHEV certifiation exam. Installing the RHEV manager is not a problem, the hypervisor is, however, another story. I don't have a seperate physical machine for the hypervisor. I was told that it is possible to install the RHEV hypervisor in a virtual machine using Ovirt kernel modules. Could someone point me towards documentation on this issue and what kernel modules to install? Thanks in advance! Best regards, Peter ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users this wiki can be handy http://www.ovirt.org/Vdsm_Developers#Running_Node_as_guest_-_Nested_KVM ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [Users] Virtualized hypervisor?
If you are using KVM as a virtualization platform; you can use nested KVM... Here are some links on the subject http://blog.jebpages.com/archives/ovirt-on-ovirt-nested-kvm-fu/ http://www.rdoxenham.com/?p=275 http://kashyapc.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/nested-virtualization-with-kvm-intel/ I have an oVirt and RHEV stack all on my test machine. Note ~ you need a pretty hot box HTH Thank you, Christian Hernandez 1225 Los Angeles Street Glendale, CA 91204 Phone: 877-782-2737 ext. 4566 Fax: 818-265-3152 christi...@4over.com mailto:christi...@4over.com www.4over.com http://www.4over.com On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 3:12 PM, ru...@planet.nl ru...@planet.nl wrote: Hi All, my name is Peter van der Meulen from the Netherlands. I'm (self paced) studying the RHEV guides and course material to take the RHEV certifiation exam. Installing the RHEV manager is not a problem, the hypervisor is, however, another story. I don't have a seperate physical machine for the hypervisor. I was told that it is possible to install the RHEV hypervisor in a virtual machine using Ovirt kernel modules. Could someone point me towards documentation on this issue and what kernel modules to install? Thanks in advance! Best regards, Peter ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [Users] Virtualized hypervisor?
Hi Peter, Jason Brooks wrote an awesome guide to running oVirt in nested virt recently: http://blog.jebpages.com/archives/ovirt-on-ovirt-nested-kvm-fu/ Hope this helps you! Cheers, Dave. On 10/29/2013 11:12 PM, ru...@planet.nl wrote: Hi All, my name is Peter van der Meulen from the Netherlands. I'm (self paced) studying the RHEV guides and course material to take the RHEV certifiation exam. Installing the RHEV manager is not a problem, the hypervisor is, however, another story. I don't have a seperate physical machine for the hypervisor. I was told that it is possible to install the RHEV hypervisor in a virtual machine using Ovirt kernel modules. Could someone point me towards documentation on this issue and what kernel modules to install? Thanks in advance! Best regards, Peter ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users -- Dave Neary - Community Action and Impact Open Source and Standards, Red Hat - http://community.redhat.com Ph: +33 9 50 71 55 62 / Cell: +33 6 77 01 92 13 ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
