Re: [Engine-devel] Things to be done to support Ubuntu hosts

From: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl(a)redhat.com&gt; To: "Zhou Zheng Sheng" <zhshzhou(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt; Cc: "engine-devel" <engine-devel(a)ovirt.org&gt; Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 9:53:29 AM Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Things to be done to support Ubuntu hosts ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Zhou Zheng Sheng" <zhshzhou(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt; > To: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl(a)redhat.com&gt; > Cc: "engine-devel" <engine-devel(a)ovirt.org&gt; > Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 3:53:17 AM > Subject: Re: Things to be done to support Ubuntu hosts > > on 2013/11/16 02:52, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Zhou Zheng Sheng" <zhshzhou(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt; > >> To: "engine-devel" <engine-devel(a)ovirt.org&gt; > >> Cc: "Itamar Heim" <iheim(a)redhat.com&gt;, "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl(a)redhat.com&gt; > >> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 8:57:19 AM > >> Subject: Things to be done to support Ubuntu hosts > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> Recently Ubuntu support is added to VDSM, and .deb binray packages can > >> be downloaded from launchpad.net PPA [1]. Most of the key features such > >> as storage management and VM lifecycle work on Ubuntu. The cross > >> distribution network management patches are upstream as well. One big > >> piece left is making ovirt-host-deploy support Ubuntu, so that we can > >> manage Ubuntu hosts from Engine, thus close the gap on host side. > >> > >> In May 2013 I made some hacks to ovirt-host-deploy and otopi. I made it > >> skipped parts not supported on Ubuntu and configure the environment > >> manually, and successfully added Ubuntu host to Engine [2]. > >> Unfortunately I have no plans to continue on it, but I'd like to make a > >> summary of the things I hacked to help anyone who wants to submit > >> patches in future. I was to add a WIKI page but I found there were not > >> many items, so a mail would be enough. > >> > >> 1. Package management operations > >> Both otopi and ovirt-host-deploy query for dependency packages and > >> install them on demand. The otopi package management just supports yum, > >> we need to add apt-get support. Package names are different in Ubuntu, > >> so I made a list mapping the names. The list in in VDSM source > >> directory, debian/dependencyMap.txt . > > > > Please try putting the following file on host: > > > > /etc/ovirt-host-deploy.conf.d/10-ubuntu.conf > > --- > > ODEPLOY/offlinePackager=bool:True > > --- > > > > This will replace the disable section of packaging in your patch. > > It will make host-deploy not to install any package and assume all is > > pre-installed. > > > > Great! Do we have plan to implement apt-get support in ovirt-host-deploy? Plans - yes. Not sure when exactly. I prefer first to handle the ovirt-engine porting to ubuntu at first opportunity. > > >> > >> 2. Network configuration operations > >> ovirt-host-deploy asks VDSM's configNetwork.py to create bridge network. > >> Cross distribution support patches for configNetwork.py are under > >> review. ovirt-host-deploy supports Ubuntu bridge configuration as long > >> as they are merged. > > > > This is not happening any more at 3.3, so no need to change anything. > > > > I think that in 3.3 with the above offline packaging use, you can use > > vanilla otopi/host-deploy. > > > > Regards, > > Alon Bar-Lev > > > >> > >> [1] https://launchpad.net/~zhshzhou/+archive/vdsm-ubuntu > >> [2] http://www.ovirt.org/images/5/57/Shanghai-VDSM-on-Ubuntu.pdf > >> > >> Here goes the detailed hack patch. The hack was base on v1.0.1, I > >> rebased it to the latest master. The rebased patch are not tested. If > >> you find this email useless, it's actually a good news, which means > >> there is not a lot of work and problems ahead ;-) > >> > >> Hack patch for ovirt-host-deploy. > >> > >> From 120493a242046d19794ef3da83b32486d372aa39 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > >> From: Zhou Zheng Sheng <zhshzhou(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt; > >> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 18:02:26 +0800 > >> Subject: [PATCH] Ubuntu Hacks > >> _______________________________________________ Engine-devel mailing list Engine-devel(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/engine-devel