Hi,

Thank you for your great job on ovirt and vdsm. Now I devote myself to compile vdsm on centos 6.3 host and attach it to a ovirt engine. But when I attach the host which contains a compiled vdsm to a ovirt engine , the status of the host is always ‘Non Responsive’(step 11 below). I reference the links below:

http://www.ovirt.org/Installing_VDSM_from_rpm

The steps( 1-9 ) are executed on centos6.3 host, and the steps(10--11) are executed on ovirt engine. So I would be very grateful if you can give me some clues that if I've missed anything or I done something wrong.

The attachment is the same as the bellow which makes it easier for you to read.

1 Deployment platform

Centos6.3

Linux bogon 2.6.32-431.20.3.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Jun 19 21:14:45 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Ip ： 10.1.8.252

CPU supports hardware virtualization extensions:

# cat /proc/cpuinfo | egrep 'svm|vmx'| grep nx

flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt tsc_deadline_timer xsave lahf_lm arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid

2 Apply all updates

# yum -y update

3 Installing required packages

RHEL 6 users must add EPEL yum repository for installing python-ordereddict and pyton-pthreading. The rpm bellow will install the epel yum repo and required gpg keys.

# yum install http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

RHEL 6 users must install a newer pep8 version than the one shipped in EPEL6. Older pep8 versions have a bug that's tickled by vdsm. You can use `pip`, or

yum install http://danken.fedorapeople.org/python-pep8-1.4.5-2.el6.noarch.rpm

oVirt repo:

yum install http://resources.ovirt.org/releases/ovirt-release.noarch.rpm

RHEL 6 users must add the glusterfs repository, providing newer glusterfs not available on RHEL 6. Optionally install 'wget' if not present

rpm -q wget 2> /dev/null || yum install wget

wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/glusterfs-epel.repo http://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/LATEST/EPEL.repo/glusterfs-epel.repo

Fedora and RHEL 6 users must verify the following packages are installed before attempting to build:

 yum install make autoconf automake pyflakes logrotate gcc python-pep8 libvirt-python python-devel \

 python-nose rpm-build sanlock-python genisoimage python-ordereddict python-pthreading libselinux-python\

 python-ethtool m2crypto python-dmidecode python-netaddr python-inotify python-argparse git \

python-cpopen bridge-utils libguestfs-tools-c pyparted openssl libnl libtool gettext-devel python-ioprocess  libvirt libvirt-client libvirt-lock-sanlock

4 Getting the source

cd /root

git clone http://gerrit.ovirt.org/p/vdsm.git

cd vdsm

5 Building a Vdsm RPM

./autogen.sh –system

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc    --localstatedir=/var --libdir=/usr/lib   --enable-hooks

make rpm NOSE_EXCLUDE=.*

6 Basic installation and start

When building from source, you should enable the ovirt-beta repository, to satisfy dependencies that are not available yet in the release repository.

# cd ~/rpmbuild/RPMS

# yum install  --skip-broken  --enablerepo=ovirt-master-snapshot-static x86_64/* noarch/vdsm-xml* noarch/vdsm-cli* noarch/vdsm-python-zombiereaper* noarch/vdsm-*jsonrpc*

Before starting vdsmd service for the first time vdsm requires some configuration procedures for external services that being used by vdsmd. To ease this process vdsm provides a utility (vdsm-tool). To perform full reconfiguration of external services perform:

# vdsm-tool configure --force

(for more information read "vdsm-tool --help")

7 Finally start the vdsmd service

# service vdsmd start

8 Yum install -y bridge-utils

Configuring the bridge Interface as below

Disable the network manager service by executing as root:

systemctl stop NetworkManager.service

systemctl disable NetworkManager.service

service network start

chkconfig network on

Add the following content into a new file named: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ovirtmgmt:

DEVICE=ovirtmgmt

TYPE=Bridge

ONBOOT=yes

DELAY=0

BOOTPROTO=static

IPADDR=10.1.8.252

NETMASK=255.255.255.0

GATEWAY=10.1.8.254

Add the following line into the configuration file of your out going interface (usually em1/eth0) the file is located at: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-em1 (assuming the device is em1)

BRIDGE=ovirtmgmt

and remove the IPADDR, NETMASK and BOOTPROTO keys, since the interface should not have an IP address of its own. Full Example

DEVICE=em1

ONBOOT=yes

BRIDGE=ovirtmgmt

Restart the network service by executing:

service network restart

Note that if any other bridge (from ovirtmgmt) is present at the time of host installation, the bridge creation operation is skipped and you have to change the bridge settings to correspond to above shown configuration manually.

9 Configuring VDSM

Add the following content into the file: /etc/vdsm/vdsm.conf (you may need to create that file):

[vars]

ssl = false

Restart the vdsmd service by executing:

service vdsmd restart

If Vdsm was started earlier with ssl=true, it would refuse to start and you may need to use the undocumented verb

service vdsmd reconfigure

service vdsmd start

which edits /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf and changes spice_tls=1 to spice_tls=0.

10 Connect to overt-engine

ref: OVirt_-_connecting_development_vdsm_to_ovirt_engine.

su - postgres -c "psql engine -c \"UPDATE vdc_options set option_value = 'true' where option_name = 'InstallVds'\""

service overt-engine restart

11 Attach the host to the engine

I login the engine Administration Portal , and attach the centos host to a cluster. But it failed.