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[Users] 2 blog posts on oVirt
by kmestery 13 Jan '12

13 Jan '12

Given the excitement around the oVirt launch, I wrote two blog posts on the "Open @ Cisco" blog covering oVirt, one last week during the workshop, one yesterday. They focus heavily on networking, I thought I would share them here: http://blogs.cisco.com/openatcisco/ovirt-kickoff-workshop/ http://blogs.cisco.com/openatcisco/openstack-quantum-at-the-ovirt-kickoff-w… Feel free to forward and share with others, comment, or send me feedback. Thanks! Kyle

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[Users] Trouble making ovirt-node image
by Federico Alberto Sayd 08 Dec '11

08 Dec '11

Hello: I am trying to implement Ovirt in a testing datacenter. I have installed Ovirt-Engine from rpm on Fedora 16 and all is Ok. I can access the web management without problem. My problem is with Ovirt-Node. I followed the guide in: http://www.ovirt.org/wiki/Node_Building. I used the same Fedora 16 installation for building the node iso. I followed all steps, but the iso creation failed. The docs dont say, but I had to install at least the ovirt-node-tools, I don't know if also I have to install ovirt-node rpm from $BASEDIR/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch The output of make ovirt-node-image.iso is in pastebin: http://pastebin.com/2U6NezuE There is not yet a prebuilt image of Ovirt available? Thanks! Any help is appreciated

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[Users] oVirt Weekly Sync Meeting Minutes :: 2011-11-30
by Robyn Bergeron 01 Dec '11

01 Dec '11

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------000406060401000403020508 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Minutes: http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2011/ovirt.2011-11-30-15.00.html Full Log: http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2011/ovirt.2011-11-30-15.00.log.html Full minutes follow below. Thanks, -Robyn ================================= #ovirt: oVirt Weekly Sync Meeting ================================= Meeting started by rbergeron at 15:00:13 UTC. The full logs are available at http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2011/ovirt.2011-11-30-15.00.log.html . Meeting summary --------------- * Who's here? (rbergeron, 15:00:41) * cctrieloff, jumper45, smoser, pmyers, ovedo, dannf, masayag, oschreib, jimjag, ykaul, sgordon, aglitke, quaid, doron present (rbergeron, 15:02:11) * itamar present (rbergeron, 15:02:20) * Today's Agenda (rbergeron, 15:02:25) * Today's Agenda: Press release status, upcoming event planning, First release "stuff", FTP/repository "stuff". (rbergeron, 15:02:59) * lpeer, acathrow present (rbergeron, 15:03:11) * Press Release Status (rbergeron, 15:03:52) * rharper present (rbergeron, 15:04:10) * Still waiting on Cisco, but is in progress. Just waiting on corporate signoff, etc. (rbergeron, 15:05:55) * Upcoming event planning (rbergeron, 15:08:43) * Robyn received word that we can have a full day room at the Red Hat dev. conference in Brno in Feb. (17th/18th, not sure on exact day yet) (rbergeron, 15:10:18) * ACTION: rbergero to work on the events wiki page and fill up with events where we should plan presence (rbergeron, 15:11:00) * ACTION: rbergeron to also add confs with papers, when to submit, etc. (rbergeron, 15:11:43) * waiting on FOSDEM to find out about availability for conference session (rbergeron, 15:13:25) * is probably best to get basic planning for conferences done in the next 2 weeks or so, people are working budgets. (rbergeron, 15:14:47) * Booth interest exists, but we need to see WHO CAN GO :) (for FOSDEM) (rbergeron, 15:18:51) * ACTION: cctrieloff to hack on an official presentation this week for use by others at events (rbergeron, 15:20:46) * LINK: http://www.ovirt.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Ovirt-WorkShop-Invitation.p… (quaid, 15:21:39) * First Release stuff. (rbergeron, 15:21:45) * ACTION: acathrow to take a crack at a presentation starting w/features, gui sutff, move into tech architecture, someone else can add contributions/getting started (rbergeron, 15:25:47) * oschreib is confirmed as the Release Manager for the first release. :) (rbergeron, 15:30:03) * LINK: http://www.ovirt.org/wiki/First_release (quaid, 15:32:49) * itamar: so i'm for treating the versions as major, going 6 months cycle (except for maybe first few which will do more rapidly to shape things up). and we provide upgrade support for last 2 major versions (cctrieloff, 15:54:46) * ftp (cctrieloff, 15:55:39) * sgordon discussed RPM / repo stuff onlist yesterday in arch@; please read and digest and respond (rbergeron, 16:03:15) * Opening of Lists (rbergeron, 16:05:14) Meeting ended at 16:20:36 UTC. Action Items ------------ * rbergero to work on the events wiki page and fill up with events where we should plan presence * rbergeron to also add confs with papers, when to submit, etc. * cctrieloff to hack on an official presentation this week for use by others at events * acathrow to take a crack at a presentation starting w/features, gui sutff, move into tech architecture, someone else can add contributions/getting started Action Items, by person ----------------------- * acathrow * acathrow to take a crack at a presentation starting w/features, gui sutff, move into tech architecture, someone else can add contributions/getting started * cctrieloff * cctrieloff to hack on an official presentation this week for use by others at events * rbergeron * rbergeron to also add confs with papers, when to submit, etc. * **UNASSIGNED** * rbergero to work on the events wiki page and fill up with events where we should plan presence People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * rbergeron (122) * cctrieloff (56) * quaid (49) * sgordon (40) * itamar (23) * oschreib (19) * jimjag (16) * pmyers (15) * abaron (11) * smoser (11) * doron_{^_^} (10) * aliguori (7) * acathrow (7) * ovirtbot (5) * jumper45 (4) * lpeer (2) * ovedo (2) * ykaul (2) * rharper (2) * ichristo (1) * oschreib1 (1) * aglitke (1) * masayag (1) * alon (1) * dannf (1) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4 .. _`MeetBot`: http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot _______________________________________________ Board mailing list Board(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/board --------------000406060401000403020508 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed; font-size: 12px;" lang="x-western">Minutes: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2011/ovirt.2011-11-30-15.00.html">http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2011/ovirt.2011-11-30-15.00.html</a> Full Log: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2011/ovirt.2011-11-30-15.00.log.html">http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2011/ovirt.2011-11-30-15.00.log.html</a> Full minutes follow below. Thanks, -Robyn ================================= #ovirt: oVirt Weekly Sync Meeting ================================= Meeting started by rbergeron at 15:00:13 UTC. The full logs are available at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2011/ovirt.2011-11-30-15.00.log.html">http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2011/ovirt.2011-11-30-15.00.log.html</a> . Meeting summary --------------- * Who's here?  (rbergeron, 15:00:41)   * cctrieloff, jumper45, smoser, pmyers, ovedo, dannf, masayag,     oschreib, jimjag, ykaul, sgordon, aglitke, quaid, doron present     (rbergeron, 15:02:11)   * itamar present  (rbergeron, 15:02:20) * Today's Agenda  (rbergeron, 15:02:25)   * Today's Agenda: Press release status, upcoming event planning, First     release "stuff", FTP/repository "stuff".  (rbergeron, 15:02:59)   * lpeer, acathrow present  (rbergeron, 15:03:11) * Press Release Status  (rbergeron, 15:03:52)   * rharper present  (rbergeron, 15:04:10)   * Still waiting on Cisco, but is in progress. Just waiting on     corporate signoff, etc.  (rbergeron, 15:05:55) * Upcoming event planning  (rbergeron, 15:08:43)   * Robyn received word that we can have a full day room at the Red Hat     dev. conference in Brno in Feb. (17th/18th, not sure on exact day     yet)  (rbergeron, 15:10:18)   * ACTION: rbergero to work on the events wiki page and fill up with     events where we should plan presence  (rbergeron, 15:11:00)   * ACTION: rbergeron to also add confs with papers, when to submit,     etc.  (rbergeron, 15:11:43)   * waiting on FOSDEM to find out about availability for conference     session  (rbergeron, 15:13:25)   * is probably best to get basic planning for conferences done in the     next 2 weeks or so, people are working budgets.  (rbergeron,     15:14:47)   * Booth interest exists, but we need to see WHO CAN GO :) (for FOSDEM)     (rbergeron, 15:18:51)   * ACTION: cctrieloff to hack on an official presentation this week for     use by others at events  (rbergeron, 15:20:46)   * LINK:     <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ovirt.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Ovirt-WorkShop-Invitation.p…">http://www.ovirt.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Ovirt-WorkShop-Invitation.p…</a>     (quaid, 15:21:39) * First Release stuff.  (rbergeron, 15:21:45)   * ACTION: acathrow to take a crack at a presentation starting     w/features, gui sutff, move into tech architecture, someone else can     add contributions/getting started  (rbergeron, 15:25:47)   * oschreib is confirmed as the Release Manager for the first release.     :)  (rbergeron, 15:30:03)   * LINK: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ovirt.org/wiki/First_release">http://www.ovirt.org/wiki/First_release</a>   (quaid, 15:32:49)   * itamar: so i'm for treating the versions as major, going 6 months     cycle (except for maybe first few which will do more rapidly to     shape things up). and we provide upgrade support for last 2 major     versions  (cctrieloff, 15:54:46) * ftp  (cctrieloff, 15:55:39)   * sgordon discussed RPM / repo stuff onlist yesterday in arch@; please     read and digest and respond  (rbergeron, 16:03:15) * Opening of Lists  (rbergeron, 16:05:14) Meeting ended at 16:20:36 UTC. Action Items ------------ * rbergero to work on the events wiki page and fill up with events where   we should plan presence * rbergeron to also add confs with papers, when to submit, etc. * cctrieloff to hack on an official presentation this week for use by   others at events * acathrow to take a crack at a presentation starting w/features, gui   sutff, move into tech architecture, someone else can add   contributions/getting started Action Items, by person ----------------------- * acathrow   * acathrow to take a crack at a presentation starting w/features, gui     sutff, move into tech architecture, someone else can add     contributions/getting started * cctrieloff   * cctrieloff to hack on an official presentation this week for use by     others at events * rbergeron   * rbergeron to also add confs with papers, when to submit, etc. * **UNASSIGNED**   * rbergero to work on the events wiki page and fill up with events     where we should plan presence People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * rbergeron (122) * cctrieloff (56) * quaid (49) * sgordon (40) * itamar (23) * oschreib (19) * jimjag (16) * pmyers (15) * abaron (11) * smoser (11) * doron_{^_^} (10) * aliguori (7) * acathrow (7) * ovirtbot (5) * jumper45 (4) * lpeer (2) * ovedo (2) * ykaul (2) * rharper (2) * ichristo (1) * oschreib1 (1) * aglitke (1) * masayag (1) * alon (1) * dannf (1) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4 .. _`MeetBot`: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot">http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot</a> _______________________________________________ Board mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Board@ovirt.org">Board(a)ovirt.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/board">http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/board</a> </div> </body> </html> --------------000406060401000403020508--

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[Users] Storage configuration
by Cristian Falcas 30 Nov '11

30 Nov '11

Hello list, Again I'm having truble with simple things. I don't know how to properly setup the Storage. Mainly I don't know how to define a location for the iso files to be used at installation time. Also, I want to ask if ovirt has the concept of virtual machine images: already installed OSs that can be fired up and used by any node without installation. I think only the MAC address should be updated for that. Best regards, Cristian Falcas

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[Users] First Nightly build of ovirt-engine & VDSM + Installation Guides
by Ronen Angluster 24 Nov '11

24 Nov '11

Hello, We've published 2 guides that describe how to install & configure ovirt-engine & VDSM from a nightly build placed on ovirt.org's repository. http://www.ovirt.org/wiki/Installing_ovirt_from_rpm http://www.ovirt.org/wiki/Installing_VDSM_from_rpm Please note the following: 1. At the time, nightly builds are not going to be carried out "nightly", we will publish new versions from time to time until we'll establish a mature and working release process 2. The installation process contains interim steps and will change as we mature the ovirt-engine product's deployment and may change significantly between revisions. Regards, Ronen Angluster

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[Users] Gentoo wiki article
by Dimitrije Zivkovic 23 Nov '11

23 Nov '11

Hi, as promised, wiki article is somewhat modified :) http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OVirt I hope it answers all the questions you asked and I hope even more that you will be adding more problems and solutions to it. Next thing for me will be creating ebuild file binary JBoss, stay tuned... :)

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Re: [Users] ovirt-node on Gentoo
by Doron Fediuck 22 Nov '11

22 Nov '11

On Monday 21 November 2011 19:12:36 Federico Simoncelli wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Doron Fediuck" <dfediuck(a)redhat.com> > > To: users(a)ovirt.org > > Cc: "VDSM Project Development" <vdsm-devel(a)lists.fedorahosted.org> > > Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 3:13:20 PM > > Subject: Re: [Users] ovirt-node on Gentoo > > > > On Monday 21 November 2011 16:00:26 Doron Fediuck wrote: > > > On Monday 21 November 2011 14:49:43 Mike Burns wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 07:42 -0500, Ayal Baron wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Actually we're thinking about NetworkManager, not netcf. > > > > > > > > Does NetworkManager have an api or library level package that > > > > doesn't > > > > pull in all the UI bits? ovirt-node does not currently include > > > > NetworkManager packages at all and we don't want to pull anything > > > > that > > > > is going to pull in X or another UI. > > > > > > > > Mike > > > > > > +1 > > > NetworkManager pulls in gnome, while it's net being used in many > > > cases, > > > especially in servers. > > > As for netcf in Gentoo, there's not substantial support which will > > > make > > > it easy to work with. > > > > > Clarifying my cryptic typos- netcf has no proper support in Gentoo. > > It will be helpful if vdsm takes a more generic approach. > > Configuring the network is a difficult task. Taking a more generic > approach means facing again the problems that NetworkManager found > and resolved in the past. > > Do you know any other (mature) project that is trying to fill in the > gaps between the network configurations in the various distro? > I'm worried that taking a generic approach we'll end up creating a > small NetworkManager clone with a smaller scope (usable only for the > vdsm tasks). > > We could use our effort to improve NetworkManager where it's lacking > of functionality/packaging. For example I've been waiting for the bridge > support for a long time, I hope to see it soon. > Federico, Since I personally know the one who wrote most of the vdsm-ovirt/rhel integration bugs (not the code, just the bugs...) I'm fully aware of network complexity, and the impact of supporting several distro's. This is exactly why I asked for a /generic/ approach, which will not pull in numerous packages which are distro or desktop-env specific. Having said that, I can tell you that last night I did some more investigations in Gentoo, and I was pleasantly surprised to see the following: emerge -DuNavt --with-bdeps=y --keep-going net-misc/networkmanager These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] net-misc/networkmanager-0.8.4.0-r2 USE="bluetooth ppp -avahi -connection-sharing -dhclient -dhcpcd -doc -gnutls -nss -resolvconf" 1,634 kB [ebuild N ] net-misc/modemmanager-0.4 USE="policykit -doc -test" 435 kB Total: 2 packages (2 new), Size of downloads: 2,069 kB This means that network manager no longer pulls gnome-related packages, which is very good news. If this is the case in other distro's I think we can converge on this solution. I guess we only need some input from Suse / Ubuntu people to see if it works for them as well. -- /d "This message will self destruct in the future. Or not."

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[Users] ovirt-node on Gentoo
by Dimitrije Zivkovic 22 Nov '11

22 Nov '11

Hi, after few hours of playing around with ovirt-node and following http://www.ovirt.org/wiki/Ovirt_Quickstart guide, I've managed to get all the way to installing vdsm on gentoo server. At this point, it is not even the issue of creating the ebuild file for vdsm, the blocker for me was the following: - after compiling vdsm and installing it, order of files and install locations are clearly following redhat system - when starting vdsm by startup script (which is in /etc/rc.d/init.d, which, in turn, does not exists in Gentoo), from errors thrown at me I see that it is redhat startup script So, I will look through the code, when time allows, but if someone could help out by some info or advice, it would be appreciated... So far, I would start by porting /etc/init.d/functions from fedora and then continue to solve the problem with conf files being on different locations. Any thoughts on this? Is this the wa to go, in the first place? Dimitrije

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[Users] FOSDEM & more general booth/promotion stuff.
by Robyn Bergeron 19 Nov '11

19 Nov '11

FOSDEM is the 4th and 5th of February. http://fosdem.org/2012/ I'd like to go ahead and reserve table space for us, but need to know if we have anyone who is willing to volunteer and hang out at the table and answer questions. Or better yet, if we have a few people who are willing to take turns doing some booth duty there. Also up for discussion: * We'll probably need a tablecloth * Would be nice to have some marketing materials (flyers, stickers, etc) * Super wish list: Have a hand-out disc capable of booting into multiple distros with oVirt packages ready to go * Have a demo of sorts available (machine remote, but a console available for playing) Please pipe up if you're planning on attending in some capacity! :) -Robyn

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[Users] vdsm configuration
by Cristian Falcas 19 Nov '11

19 Nov '11

Hello all, Can someone point me to some documentation regarding vdsm (and if needed libvirt) configuration? How it is accessed by the ovirt-engine and how to set it to a certain ovirt-engine on the network. Currently my libvirt is complaining that it can't work with ssh-less vdsm and I have no idea how to set up the keys for vdsm. Also I have no idea how to define the storage: in ovirt or in vdsm? Who is reporting the disks/files available? I hope I understood correctly that only the vdsm package is needed to make the physical machine available for ovirt and only ovirt-engine is doing all the heavy work. Also, if the questions are too "RTFM", please let me know where I can find any help related to ovirt. Best regards, Cristian Falcas

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