From: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl(a)redhat.com>
To: "Antoni Segura Puimedon" <asegurap(a)redhat.com>
Cc: "Zhou Zheng Sheng" <zhshzhou(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
"engine-devel" <engine-devel(a)ovirt.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 1:03:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Things to be done to support Ubuntu hosts
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Antoni Segura Puimedon" <asegurap(a)redhat.com>
> To: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl(a)redhat.com>
> Cc: "Zhou Zheng Sheng" <zhshzhou(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
"engine-devel"
> <engine-devel(a)ovirt.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 1:50:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Things to be done to support Ubuntu hosts
>
> Would it make sense to leverage packagekit to abstract away the distro
> packaging differences?
http://www.packagekit.org/pk-using.html
Not really... as it is egg and chicken...
How do I install this package on vanilla host?
And... it does not support gentoo as far as I can see :)))
Yeah... I guess writing a backend for gentoo's ebuilds or for Arch's AUR
would be quite a challenge.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl(a)redhat.com>
> > To: "Zhou Zheng Sheng" <zhshzhou(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > Cc: "engine-devel" <engine-devel(a)ovirt.org>
> > 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>
> > > To: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl(a)redhat.com>
> > > Cc: "engine-devel" <engine-devel(a)ovirt.org>
> > > 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>
> > > >> To: "engine-devel" <engine-devel(a)ovirt.org>
> > > >> Cc: "Itamar Heim" <iheim(a)redhat.com>, "Alon
Bar-Lev"
> > > >> <alonbl(a)redhat.com>
> > > >> 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>
> > > >> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 18:02:26 +0800
> > > >> Subject: [PATCH] Ubuntu Hacks
> > > >>
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