[Users] Can oVirt be installed in a virtual machine?

[Itamar Heim]

On 09/13/2012 12:48 AM, Nicolas Chenier wrote:
> Wonderful thank you. Once I install oVirt in KVM (without oVirt) will I
> be able to import the VM in oVirt after I'm up?

what would be the benefit of doing that?

>
> On 2012-09-12 5:25 PM, "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com
> <mailto:iheim at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 09/13/2012 12:20 AM, Nicolas Chenier wrote:
>
>         Yes!
>
>
>     how critical is the availability?
>     you could place it in a VM on shared storage.
>     then launch it on one host.
>     but you should never launch it on the other host before you made
>     sure it doesn't run on the first node, or it will be corrupted.
>     you also want to set the SPM priority on the node it is running to
>     lower than the other node so SPM won't be scheduled on engine node.
>
>
>         On 2012-09-12 5:02 PM, "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com
>         <mailto:iheim at redhat.com>
>         <mailto:iheim at redhat.com <mailto:iheim at redhat.com>>> wrote:
>
>              On 09/12/2012 11:58 PM, Nicolas Chenier wrote:
>
>                  Thank you Itamar, much appreciated...
>
>                  So how would you go about getting this setup if you
>         only have 2 host
>                  servers?
>
>
>              are they supposed to be in same cluster with shared
>         storage, live
>              migration, etc.?
>
>
>
>                  On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Itamar Heim
>         <iheim at redhat.com <mailto:iheim at redhat.com>
>                  <mailto:iheim at redhat.com <mailto:iheim at redhat.com>>
>                  <mailto:iheim at redhat.com <mailto:iheim at redhat.com>
>         <mailto:iheim at redhat.com <mailto:iheim at redhat.com>>>> wrote:
>
>                       On 09/12/2012 08:26 PM, Nicolas Chenier wrote:
>
>                           Hi all,
>
>                           I am starting a small hosting business and
>         want to use
>                  oVirt w/
>                           KVM as
>                           my virtualization platform.
>
>                           I currently have 2 host servers and an iSCSI NAS.
>
>                           Do I need a dedicated machine to run oVirt?
>         Can I run
>                  it from a VM?
>
>
>                       either will work, but not easy right now to host
>         the engine
>                  on its
>                       own hypervisor.
>
>
>
>                           Can I use the all-in-one solution in a Production
>                  environment,
>                           with a
>                           2nd host? ... would I need to install oVirt on
>         both
>                  hosts, in
>                           the event
>                           that one of my servers went down?
>
>
>                       the all-in-one is mostly intended for POC level, using
>                  local storage
>                       of the host.
>                       if you plan to use both hosts with local storage, you
>                  should be able
>                       to use it, depending on strength of your hosts.
>
>
>
>                           I am trying to see how I can survive if my
>         oVirt server
>                  fails.
>                           It would
>                           be great if it ran from a VM but I can also
>         see issues with
>                           doing that...
>
>                           Another option would be to run oVirt on my
>         workstation
>                  and have it
>                           connect to my 2 host servers in colocation
>         over the
>                  internet?
>
>
>                       should work over WAN, but if you are hosting, wouldn't
>                  users need to
>                       access the engine / your workstation?
>
>
>                           Please let me know how you've accomplished an
>         oVirt
>                  setup with 2
>                           servers.
>
>                           Thank you!
>
>                           Nic
>
>
>
>
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