[ovirt-devel] Re: oVirt on Fedora 28 for developers

2018-06-28 15:42 GMT+02:00 Nir Soffer <nsoffer(a)redhat.com&gt;: > I want to share the current state of oVirt on Fedora 28, hopefully it will > save time for other developers. > Thanks for the summary!

> > > 1. Why should I run oVirt on Fedora 28? > > - Fedora is the the base for future CentOS. The bugs we find *today* on > Fedora 28 > are the bugs that we will not have next year when we try oVirt on CentOS. > > - I want to contribute to projects that require python 3. For example, > virt-v2v > require python 3.6 in upstream. If you want to contribute you need to > test > it on Fedora 28. > > - I need to develop with latest libvirt and qemu. One example is > incremental > backup, you will need Fefora 28 to work on this. > > - CentOS is old and boring, I want to play with the newest bugs :-) > > > 2. How to install oVirt with Fedora 28 hosts > > Warning: ugly hacks bellow! > > - Install ovirt-release-master.rpm on all hosts > > dnf install > http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/yum-repo/ovirt-release-master.rpm > > - Install or build engine on CentOS 7.5 (1804)[1] >

> - When provisioning a host, make sure you have lvm2-2.02.177-5.fc28 > without it, no block storage you[2] > This has been pushed to stable 3 days ago, so just "dnf update --refresh" should be enough to consume it > > - When adding a host, disable "Configure host firewall" - it does not > work now > I hope that Sandro team will fix this issue soon. > Tracked here https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1381135 > > - Adding a host will fail, because without firewall setup, port 54321 is > not reacable. > to fix this, configure the firewall manually, or disable it > > iptables -F > > This is pretty lame because you have to apply it again after restart, but > it was > good enough for now. > > - Because the host was not reachable, we don't configure the host network > so the host will be non-operational. > To fix this, open host > network > setup networks and assign ovirtmgmt > to the host management nic. The host will become UP after that. > I hope that Dan team will fix it soon. > > - Adding storage will fail because sanlock selinux issue[3] > To fix, set selinux to permissive mode: > > setenforce 0 > Please add a custom rule to selinux instead of disabling it while waiting for a fix, so you can catch more selinux issues masked by this. > At this point you should have a working setup. > > > 3. Building and instaling vdsm from source on Fedora 28 > > - Install build dependencies using > > dnf install `cat automation/check-patch.packages.fc28` > > - Clean the source (needed if you rerun ./autogen.sh with different > options) > > git clean -dxf > > - Configure vdsm with hooks - for some reason 2 hooks are required > on Fedora but not on EL. > > ./autogen.sh --system --enable-hooks > > - Build > > make > make rpm > > - Install the packages at /home/user/rpmbuild/RPMS/{noarch,x86_64} > > - if vdsm was never installed, you need to configure and enable it > > vdsm-tool configure --force > systemctl enable vdsmd > systemctl start vdsmd > > At this point you can test the new bugs you added to vdsm :-) > > > [1] I did not try to install engine on Fedora 28. I guess engine folks can > share if there are issues with this. > > [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1575762 > LVM team fixed the issue couple of hours after I asked about it in #lvm > We had a build for testing couple of days later. > > [3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1593853 > We are still waiting for selinux folks response. > > Happy hacking! > > Nir > > -- SANDRO BONAZZOLA MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA R&D RHV Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com/> sbonazzo(a)redhat.com <https://red.ht/sig> _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list -- devel(a)ovirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave(a)ovirt.org Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/site/privacy-policy/ oVirt Code of Conduct: https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ List Archives: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/devel@ovirt.org/message/DZTZTRLEEV2...