[ovirt-users] Re: install python package ovirt_imageio for Ovirt 4.3
On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 2:24 PM Grace Chen <hippoqian(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I want to use python script running from a host to automate the
remote kvm manager's vm backup. Our ovirt version is 4.3. I have installed
ovirt-imageio-daemon on the host
I tried to yum install ovirt-imageio-client (we use yum), it couldn't find the
package.
error message:
Loaded plugins: ulninfo, vdsmupgrade, versionlock
ovirt-4.3
| 3.0 kB 00:00:00
ovirt-4.3-extra
| 3.0 kB 00:00:00
ovirt-master-snapshot
| 3.0 kB 00:00:00
ovirt-master-snapshot-static
| 3.0 kB 00:00:00
No package ovirt-imageio-client available.
I tried to copy folder ovirt_imageio from ovirt-imageio to my python library directory,
it could not compile the c file "ioutil.c"
Can anybody help me install the python package? Am I installing on the correct place, do
I need to use the python script only on the host that installed the kvm manager?
(Copied from private mail in case it is useful for others)
ovirt-imageio-client was released in 4.4, and is not compatible with python 2.
In general the client supports older version of ovirt server (e.g.
4.3), but it is
not tested in this configuration.
You can try to create a vm with centos 8 and ovirt-release44.rpm
and install the client in this vm.
Then you can run the backups on the vm, and store the backups in
NFS server accessed by this "backup" vm.
Note that you will get much better performance with ovirt 4.4., when
running the client directly on the ovirt host. 4.4. also supports incremental
backup, which is much faster and simpler compared with snapshot based
backup that you probably plan to use.\
Nir