Re: [Engine-devel] hosted engine in 3.4

On 03/14/2014 10:17 AM, Sandro Bonazzola wrote: > Il 14/03/2014 10:13, Martin Sivak ha scritto: >> Hi, >> >>>>> 1. You need to have some MAC address with static ip and FQDN, otherwise >>>>> you have to change /etc/hosts at least for the first part of the setup >> >> I believe you were there when we were discussing this with pstehlik :) >> >> Btw in this case you have to change /etc/hosts on all hosts and inside the >> engine VM. >> >>>>> 2. When the VM install is complete I would expect the setup wizard to >>>>> install the engine to the VM automatically - which at least in my case - >>>>> doesn't happen >> >> I also proposed kickstart based setup to Sandro. You would give a repo to setup >> and it would download the kernel/initrd from it [1] and create a kickstart with >> the right root password, engine setup and so on.. > > Ohad is preparing an OVA for allowing a quick setup. > But feel free to open a RFE for the kickstart solution as well. > >> >> [1] http://ftp.linux.cz/pub/linux/fedora/linux/releases/20/Fedora/x86_64/os/i... >> >>>>> 1. once I managed to install the engine to the vm it tried to add the >>>>> host it was running on to the engine and it failed with a message "Host >>>>> compatibility version doesn't match the cluster compatibility version", >>>>> and then it marked the host as non operational which killed the vm with >>>>> the engine, so the engine actually committed suicide… >> >> Check your VDSM version. Especially the content of /usr/share/vdsm/dsaversion.py >> file. There are couple of lists specifying the cluster and engine versions that >> the VDSM supports. >> >> If you use 3.4 engine it needs 3.4 VDSM as well.. and the prerelease repo is not >> enabled by default. >> >>>>> mistake I think the engine should be a bit more clever and not kill itself >>>> >> >> I think it is the VDSM that does the actual killing :) >> >> But overall I agree, the setup is too fragile and I encountered all of the issues >> when installing hosted engine for the first time too. > > Please be sure to have a BZ for each issue you encountered. > We'll try to address them. > Sure, I'm about to create them, btw, I'm a new developer assigned to the hosted-engine so I'll be probably fixing those issues with you :)

--Jirka > >> >> -- >> Martin Sivák >> msivak(a)redhat.com >> Red Hat Czech >> RHEV-M SLA / Brno, CZ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Engine-devel mailing list >> Engine-devel(a)ovirt.org >> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/engine-devel >> > >