Re: [ovirt-users] Live Migration / Snapshots- CentOS 6.5

There we go, sorry about that! Ill give these a test then. Thanks for the help On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 7:39 AM, Karli Sjöberg <Karli.Sjoberg(a)slu.se&gt; wrote: > > Den 5 jul 2014 16:22 skrev Brad Bendy <brad.bendy(a)gmail.com&gt;: > > >> >> Haha, yeah never have been a Fedora fan, and nothing has changed. Is >> the only big feature im missing out on is snapshots? From what I can >> tell, and in my testing, everything else seems to work. Was deploying >> GlusterFS but without the live migration to another host that is >> somewhat defeated. > > VM live migration works, live _disk_ migration does not. > >> Only way to get that is with RHEL really then? > > No, as I earlier pointed out, there is a place you can get the packages you > need for CentOS: > http://jenkins.ovirt.org/view/All/job/qemu-kvm-rhev_create-rpms_el6/lastS... > > You'll have to download- and force install them over the already installed > versions of those packages on all Hosts and then it'll work. > > Though, next time there are updates, yum will update from the standard repos > and it just stops working again until you repeat the procedure. > > /K > >> >> On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 7:05 AM, Karli Sjöberg <Karli.Sjoberg(a)slu.se&gt; >> wrote: >> > >> > Den 5 jul 2014 15:57 skrev Brad Bendy <brad.bendy(a)gmail.com&gt;: >> > >> > >> >> >> >> If I use Fedora will "everything" work? I had numerous issues, IIRC I >> >> could not even get the ovirtmgmt switch to install and a few other >> >> things. What version of Fedora do you recommend then? >> > >> > None:) We switched long ago to CentOS and have never looked back, even >> > with >> > these issues. Not worth the headache that is Fedora. >> > >> > /K >> > >> >> Ill do another >> >> install and give that a whirl again. >> >> >> >> Thanks! >> >> >> >> On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 10:33 PM, Karli Sjöberg <Karli.Sjoberg(a)slu.se&gt; >> >> wrote: >> >> > >> >> > Den 5 jul 2014 07:04 skrev Brad Bendy <brad.bendy(a)gmail.com&gt;: >> >> >> >> >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> >> >> Ive seeing conflicting info with what version of qemu rpms are >> >> >> needed >> >> >> to do live migration under CentOS. It appears the stock ones will >> >> >> not >> >> >> work and the RHEV ones are required. All the mailing list post I see >> >> >> are from 3-4 months ago, so not sure. >> >> >> >> >> >> Im getting VDSGenericException: VDSErrorException: Failed to >> >> >> SnapshotVDS, error = Snapshot failed, code = 48 (Failed with error >> >> >> SNAPSHOT_FAILED and code 48) >> >> >> >> >> >> I also saw this thread: >> >> >> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.centos.general/138593 >> >> >> >> >> >> Ive been having issues getting those to install, but before I spent >> >> >> to >> >> >> much more time I wanted to really see if I was on the right track. >> >> >> >> >> >> Is there a better OS choice? I first started trying with Fedora 19 >> >> >> and >> >> >> 20 and has major issues, went to CentOS 6.5 and this is the first >> >> >> and >> >> >> only issue so far ive ran into. >> >> >> >> >> >> Thanks! >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> >> Users mailing list >> >> >> Users(a)ovirt.org >> >> >> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> >> > >> >> > Well, going with Fedora would at least get you the snapshots working, >> >> > if >> >> > I remember correctly, but that's not something you run in production. >> >> > As you >> >> > said, "major issues". >> >> > >> >> > For CentOS, you need "special" versions of certain packages, since >> >> > RedHat wants you to pay for RHEV, they have chosen to cripple the >> >> > standard >> >> > packages so those features won't work: >> >> > http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/devel/2014-June/007735.html >> >> > >> >> > And here you can find the packages you need: >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > http://jenkins.ovirt.org/view/All/job/qemu-kvm-rhev_create-rpms_el6/lastS... >> >> > >> >> > /K