10:40 a.m.
I am doing this from PXE. Not USB. The question is, is what I found the expected
behavior? This entire area of oVirt seems to need some serious enhancement. The same
issues exist in RHEV, which is not a surprise, but automated installation is key to
enterprise adoption of either oVirt or especially RHEV, so I have the impression this
feature set should have a high priority? VMware for example has a very polished and deep
deployment methodology, include full stateless deploy of ESXi. Would like to see
oVirt/RHEV reach peer stability, consistency and behavior for automated installation to
what VMware does, as well as Hyper-V, and even XenServer. I get the impression, no many
are using PXE based deployment of oVirt?
-----Original Message-----
From: Fabian Deutsch [mailto:fabiand@redhat.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 00:46
To: No Reply
Cc: users(a)ovirt.org
Subject: Re: [Users] Ovirt Node Automated Installation... full unattended installation?
Am Dienstag, den 05.02.2013, 16:02 -0800 schrieb No Reply:
No comments? J This has to be an important feature of oVirt no?
Hey,
does it basically work - e.g. when booting from USB - when you add the
BOOTIF=eth0 storage_init parameters?
So using a device name instead of a mac address?
Greetings
fabian
From: users-bounces(a)ovirt.org [mailto:users-bounces@ovirt.org] On
Behalf Of No Reply
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2013 20:30
To: users(a)ovirt.org
Subject: Re: [Users] Ovirt Node Automated Installation... full
unattended installation?
The plot thickens… I removed BOOTIF and used IPAPPEND 2 directive
which per the documentation does automatic append of BOOTIF parameter
using the MAC of the adapter that PXE used, and received the
DHCPOFFER… then the automated installation worked as the documentation
suggests. Does this make sense, or is this some type of odd quirk or
bug?
Does not work… (FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF is not the real MAC used, just
redacted the real MAC)…
KERNEL images/oVirt/2.5.5-0.1/vmlinuz0
APPEND rootflags=loop initrd=images/oVirt/2.5.5-0.1/initrd0.img
root=live:/ovirt-node-iso-2.5.5-0.1.fc17.iso rootfstype=auto ro
liveimg check rootflags=ro crashkernel=512M-2G:64M,2G-:128M
elevator=deadline rd_NO_LVM rd.luks=0 rd.md=0 rd.dm=0
storage_init=/dev/sda BOOTIF=<FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF>
Works…
KERNEL images/oVirt/2.5.5-0.1/vmlinuz0
IPAPPEND 2
APPEND rootflags=loop initrd=images/oVirt/2.5.5-0.1/initrd0.img
root=live:/ovirt-node-iso-2.5.5-0.1.fc17.iso rootfstype=auto ro
liveimg check rootflags=ro crashkernel=512M-2G:64M,2G-:128M
elevator=deadline rd_NO_LVM rd.luks=0 rd.md=0 rd.dm=0
storage_init=/dev/sda
From: users-bounces(a)ovirt.org [mailto:users-bounces@ovirt.org] On
Behalf Of Schorschi
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2013 20:07
To: users(a)ovirt.org
Subject: [Users] Ovirt Node Automated Installation... full unattended
installation?
Ok, reading the RHEV-H node automated installation, given the oVirt
documentation states the same automated installation parameters are
supported, I can’t see to resolve one key issue…
First boot of PXE configuration does an ‘uninstall’ to ensure no past
installation of oVirt node exists… this works 100% unattended.
However using install or reinstall or local_boot (a.k.a. upgrade) or
even firstboot option, and even no option, on the APPEND command line
via PXE, the automated installation stops. Waiting for interactive
response? Is this the expected behavior? Even just using
init_storage and BOOTIF, the only two required parameters, the
automated process stops for interactive input? So how do you do a
completely automated installation with zero human interactive action
required?
Uninstall… This works as expected…
KERNEL images/oVirt/2.5.5-0.1/vmlinuz0
APPEND rootflags=loop initrd=images/oVirt/2.5.5-0.1/initrd0.img
root=live:/ovirt-node-iso-2.5.5-0.1.fc17.iso rootfstype=auto ro
liveimg check rootflags=ro crashkernel=512M-2G:64M,2G-:128M
elevator=deadline uninstall
Install… This does not work as expected, per how the documentation
implies it should?
KERNEL images/oVirt/2.5.5-0.1/vmlinuz0
APPEND rootflags=loop initrd=images/oVirt/2.5.5-0.1/initrd0.img
root=live:/ovirt-node-iso-2.5.5-0.1.fc17.iso rootfstype=auto ro
liveimg check rootflags=ro crashkernel=512M-2G:64M,2G-:128M
elevator=deadline rd_NO_LVM rd.luks=0 rd.md=0 rd.dm=0
storage_init=/dev/sda BOOTIF=<FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF>
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