<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 10:26 AM, Alan Griffiths <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:apgriffiths79@gmail.com" target="_blank">apgriffiths79@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I was building my own image, using Foreman, Puppet and PXE. There's a<br>
specific partitioning schema I'm required to use in my environment and<br>
building my own image from Kickstart is by far the easiest way to<br>
achieve this.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Also our default appliance is built from a kickstart file.</div><div>You can simply customize it as you need and rebuild your custom appliance to be used with hosted-engine-setup.</div><div><br></div><div>Look here to see how the ovirt engine appliance is built:</div><div><a href="https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-appliance/tree/master/engine-appliance">https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-appliance/tree/master/engine-appliance</a><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
I can appreciate that in most scenarios the OVA install is the<br>
best/easiest option, but it would have been nice to keep PXE and ISO<br>
options.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>The point is that now hosted-engine-setup is strongly using cloud-init to automatically configure the appliance and execute engine-setup there.</div><div>It's simply using the no-cloud datasource which is just a cloud-init specific iso file attached on the fly as a CDROM; doing it over a pxe boot will instead require a zero conf network to supply cloud init data and it's by far more complex.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail-HOEnZb"><div class="gmail-h5">
On 20 November 2017 at 17:24, Simone Tiraboschi <<a href="mailto:stirabos@redhat.com">stirabos@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 4:39 PM, Alan Griffiths <<a href="mailto:apgriffiths79@gmail.com">apgriffiths79@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
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>> Hi,<br>
>><br>
>> What was the reasoning behind making Hosted Engine install OVA only?<br>
>> The PXEBoot feature always worked really well for me, and now I have a<br>
>> number of extra steps to achieve the same end result.<br>
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> Do you mean that you were customizing the image shipped via PXE?<br>
> Deploying from the OVA is pretty convenient, if you want just to forget<br>
> about it, you have to install also ovirt-engine-appliance rpm when you<br>
> install ovirt-hosted-engine-setup one.<br>
> I don't see other additional steps.<br>
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>><br>
>> Thanks,<br>
>><br>
>> Alan<br>
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