* Ryan Harper <[email protected]> [2012-01-18 11:27]: > * Ryan Harper <[email protected]> [2012-01-18 06:59]: > > I've created some f16 VMs that contain both ovirt-engine and a few > > to run vdsm as nodes. When I add in the VM host into the engine and it > > attempts to install vdsm (even though I've already installed vdsm) the > > install fails because the vdsm install script is checking to see if the > > host has virt capabilities; since I'm not running nested KVM, this > > fails. Is there a way to work around this can enable a VM to be a host > > in oVirt? I had heard in the past there was a way to create fake VMs > > when attempting to do ovirt-engine stress testing, wondering if that > > might be of help here. > > Now that I have one VM as a host in the UP state in ovirt-engine, let me > capture what I needed to get that to work: > > > On my F16-node, since I was following the test day instructions which > asked to install vdsm/vdsm-cli and this is already done by ovirt-engine > bootstrap. > > 1) uninstall vdsm and vdsm-cli > - ovirt-engine will push down a vdsm package during the bootstrap > process > > 2) disable selinux > - edit /etc/sysconfig/selinux and set SELINUX=disabled > - reboot > > 3) ensure ssl=false and fake_kvm_support=true in /etc/vdsm/vdsm.conf > > 4) restart vdsmd > > > On the ovirt-engine instanes > > # we have a gateway in the way so we're using ssh tunneling to access > # the ovirt-engine VM instance > > 1) re-install ovirt-engine and don't use localhost as the hostname since > this value is passed to the host you install vdsm on and it will fail to > push the bootstrap script down. This means that after you setup your > tunnel, to get to the admin interface, you need to manually enter: > > http://localhost:8080/webadmin > > 2) edit /usr/share/ovirt-engine/engine.ear/components.war/vds/vds_bootstrap.py > and comment out lines 836->839, like this. > > # if not oDeploy.virtExplorer(random_num): > # logging.error('virtExplorer test failed') > # return False > > 3) some misc stuff (not sure if it is needed, but looks harmless enough) > > mkdir /var/lock/ovirt-engine/ > chown jboss-as:jboss-as -R /var/lock/ovirt-engine > restorecon -Fvv /var/lock/ovirt-engine > > 4) update jboss configuration to not use ssl > > psql -U postgres engine -c "update vdc_options set option_value='false' where > +option_name='UseSecureConnectionWithServers' and version='general';" >
forgot this one: # when using fake_kvm_support engine-config -s MaxVdsMemOverCommit=2000; > 5) restart jboss > > service restart jboss-as > > > > > Also, are their vdsm rpms built for RHEL6.x available? > > > > Thanks! > > > > -- > > Ryan Harper > > Software Engineer; Linux Technology Center > > IBM Corp., Austin, Tx > > [email protected] > > -- > Ryan Harper > Software Engineer; Linux Technology Center > IBM Corp., Austin, Tx > [email protected] -- Ryan Harper Software Engineer; Linux Technology Center IBM Corp., Austin, Tx [email protected] _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
