Hey Jason, ----- Original Message ----- > I'm setting up some new oVirt infrastructure, and wanted to give hosted > engine a try. I downloaded and installed the oVirt Node Hypervisor ISO > (3.5-0.999.201502231653.el7.centos) on one of 3 nodes. One of the > options in the hypervisor menu is "Hosted Engine". This requires an > "Engine ISO/OVA URL for download". The thing is - as far as I can tell, > there is no download link for this ISO/OVA on the ovirt release web > site. I also can't find anything in the documentation that refers to it > (or even this menu in the hypervisor). I did find this after some searching:
Yes, you are right, the documentation of Hosted Engine is currently ... sparse. > http://jenkins.ovirt.org/user/fabiand/my-views/view/Node/job/ovirt-appliance_engine-3.5_master_merged/oVirt-Engine-Appliance-CentOS-x86_64-7-20150319.424.ova > > (Now replaced with a build from 0322). I asked on the ovirt IRC channel > and was told that this "might" work, but because of new functionality > introduced recently that it also might not. If the feature is available > in the node ISO, shouldn't there be an appropriate release of the hosted > engine ISO/OVA that works hand in hand with the node that I've > downloaded? If it's not there because it isn't ready, isn't this > functionality something that should be added to maybe a "beta" node > release and tested before being released into the stable node hypervisor > release? Yes, the problem here is with the ovirt-appliance. We did not start building images based on the 3.5 status of the appliance. I'll see if we can get up a builder for the ovirt-3.5 branch up quickly. > I asked on the IRC channel whether it might be possible for me to > kickstart my own engine from the node. I ran into trouble with that as > well. On the installed node, I can only configure one network > interface. This is, of course, intended to enable ovirtmgmt for > communication with engine which would take over and configure everything > else for you. Of course, when you don't yet have engine installed and > need to get it, this leads to a chicken and egg problem. To kickstart > engine on node, I need an IP (from mgmt), an image (I guess it could > come from the mgmt network), but then I also need access to the external > network (on another NIC) to be able to install the appropriate ovirt yum > repository, and download the engine! If I installed my own node > manually instead if using ISO, I guess I could configure the network, > and make it work, but I'm trying to take advantage of the work that has > already been put into node to make this all possible. I believe I saw a corresponding bug for what you described above. Does it help if you temporarily add a route to your management network's router, which enables the hosted-engine host to access the relevant networks (external, storage, …)? Greetings fabian > Anyway, I'm certainly interested in any feedback from users who have > been able to make this work. I guess I could kickstart one node as an > engine, create the virtual image there, suck the ova down to the mgmt > server, install node, then use node to re-suck down the hosted engine > image, but it just seems like a lot of extra work. Somehow I think it's > intended to be a little more straightforward than that. > > Jason. > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
