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

From: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl(a)redhat.com&gt; To: "Antoni Segura Puimedon" <asegurap(a)redhat.com&gt; Cc: "Zhou Zheng Sheng" <zhshzhou(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;, "engine-devel" <engine-devel(a)ovirt.org&gt; 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&gt; > To: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl(a)redhat.com&gt; > Cc: "Zhou Zheng Sheng" <zhshzhou(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;, "engine-devel" > <engine-devel(a)ovirt.org&gt; > 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 :)))

> > ----- Original Message ----- > > 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 > > >