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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'> <BR><div>> From: michal.skrivanek@redhat.com<br>> Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 14:23:19 +0100<br>> To: Blaster@556nato.com<br>> CC: users@ovirt.org<br>> Subject: Re: [Users] What agents are needed?<br>> <br>> <br>> On Dec 3, 2013, at 10:52 , Vinzenz Feenstra <vfeenstr@redhat.com> wrote:<br>> <br>> > On 11/30/2013 09:49 PM, Blaster wrote:<br>> >> There doesn't seem to be a single "tools" or "agent" install like there is under ESXi, that's required to be installed under ovirt, instead I've seen references to<br>> >> <br>> >> 1) virtio drivers<br>> >> 2) Spice drivers<br>> >> 3) qemu agent<br>> >> <br>> >> What's really needed under both Windows and Linux to get guests working properly?<br>> > Well it depends on what you consider 'working properly'<br>> > <br>> > Mainly you will need to have the VirtIO drivers, the Spice Drivers and the Spice VDAgent<br>> > For additional features supported by oVirt you'll also need the ovirt-guest-agent<br>> > The qemu agent is currently optional, however will be required together with the ovirt-guest-agent at some point to support some additional features.<br>> > <br>> >> <br>> >> Are all these agents included in Fedora?<br>> > Yes they are.<br>> <br>> btw the virtio drivers are already in kernel so for a bare minimum functionality you're ready to go without any additional sw on Fedora. If you want copy&paste in SPICE you need vdagent, if you need detailed utilization statistics, app list, guest IP reporting, SSO you need ovirt-guest-agent. If you need the new backup API and hotplug CPU in the future you'll need qemu-ga as well<br>> </div><div> </div><div>Michal, thank you for sharing this information. I am going to try and get this into added to the wiki.</div><div> </div><div>Blaster if this helps:</div><div>For Fedora, you can get the guest agent and spice drivers by running "yum install ovirt-guest-agent <font size="3">spice-vdagent" . Additional steps for the ovirt-guest-agent install here ( <a href="http://www.ovirt.org/How_to_install_the_guest_agent_in_Fedora">http://www.ovirt.org/How_to_install_the_guest_agent_in_Fedora</a>) but I wasn't aware of the spice-vdagent.</font></div><div> </div><div>For Windows</div><div>- you can get the VirtIO drivers by downloading the iso from <a href="http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/">http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/</a>, upload it to your ISO store, change the CD on the vm, and then install the drivers through device manager. That will solve virtio-serial and virtio-scsi</div><div>- you can get the spice drivers by downloading the windows binary from <a href="http://www.spice-space.org/download.html">http://www.spice-space.org/download.html</a> (I added this to the wiki this week). Note: Win7 and lower right now.</div><div>- you can get the ovirt-guest-agent by following these directions: <a href="http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_Guest_Agent_For_Windows">http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_Guest_Agent_For_Windows</a></div> <BR><div><br>> Thanks,<br>> michal<br>> <br>> >> <br>> >> <br>> >> _______________________________________________<br>> >> Users mailing list<br>> >> Users@ovirt.org<br>> >> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users<br>> > <br>> > <br>> > -- <br>> > Regards,<br>> > <br>> > Vinzenz Feenstra | Senior Software Engineer<br>> > RedHat Engineering Virtualization R & D<br>> > Phone: +420 532 294 625<br>> > IRC: vfeenstr or evilissimo<br>> > <br>> > Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration.<br>> > See how it works at redhat.com<br>> > <br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > Users mailing list<br>> > Users@ovirt.org<br>> > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Users mailing list<br>> Users@ovirt.org<br>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users<br></div> </div></body>
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