I agree. The "oVirt Node" part will not be a VM since as you said, it would be
a VM within a VM - my mistake in expressing what i'm preparing.
Regarding the "single machine" (Engine and Node) "live iso" that you mention.
Where can I find it…?
Regards;
Richie
José E ("Richie") Piovanetti, MD, MS
M: 787-615-4884 | [email protected]
On Jun 5, 2013, at 3:28 AM, Joop <[email protected]> wrote:
> Richie@HIP wrote:
>>
>> hi oVirt Community.
>>
>> This will be my first posting for help to the oVirt community, so please
>> bear with me I'f I'm not to the etiquette standards you might have already.
>>
>> I'm trying to test oVirt as a FOSS Virtualization solution for small- to
>> medium-sized healthcare organizations implementing various health
>> information technology solutions (HIT) that the new health care reform is
>> requiring. As a Clinical informatist, I'm very concerned about health care
>> costs, hence I'm pushing for open source to take a wider stance in U.S.
>> health care to reduce costs where possible and divert moneys to patient
>> care. Now enough with my altruistic desires, and let go into the deep.
>>
>> I'm trying to create "virtual machines" (using VirtualBox, Parallels and/or
>> VMWare Workstation); mainly one for "oVirt Engine"; ind later a the second
>> one for "oVirt Nodes". This way, these VM's files can be copier to any
>> hardware and underlying OS, so at least the "Virt Engine" is easily
>> installed and brought-up to facilitate managing oVirt Nodes. I considered
>> creating ".iso" images of each component (Engine and Nodes) but I'm afraid
>> this will hit the wall for linux novices when installing the ".iso" images
>> in different hardware platforms (with different processors, number of cores,
>> RAM, chipsets, etc.)
>>
> If I understand you correctly you want to make VMs for both engine and node
> so that you'll only need those images to setup a virtualisation
> infrastructure?
> If so that is only partly going to work. The engine VM will work but the node
> not since that would imply nested virtualisation. That can work but not for
> every combination and probably not for the above mentioned products.
> Node needs to run on the bare metal since it provides the same functions as
> VirtualBox/Parallels/VMWare, its Fedora18 as its operating system + kvm as
> its virtualiser.
>
> Concerning you dns problems, to make it short, you'll need to come up with a
> naming scheme and implement that either using a full dns server or through
> /etc/hosts.
> You might also have a look at the all-in-one plugin which turns a single
> machine into both engine and node or if you want to play around have a look
> at the live iso.
>
> Regards,
>
> Joop
>
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