[ovirt-users] Re: Installing oVirt on RHEL vs CentOS Stream, Alma or Rocky Linux
On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 7:55 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Tue, Feb 01, 2022 at 12:14:37PM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 12:00 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm still struggling to get oVirt installed. It absolutely will not
> > install on RHEL 8, the documentation here is flat out wrong:
> >
> >
https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/installing_ovirt_as_a_standalone_mana...
> >
> > javapackages-tools is not a module that exists in RHEL 8. Apparently
> > it's a CentOS PowerTools module.
> >
>
> It should exist in the RHEL 8 CodeReady Builder repository.
That did in fact work, thanks.
Would you like to file a doc bug about this?
oVirt on RHEL is not such a common combination...
In CI we only test on Centos Stream (8, hopefully soon also 9, we'll see),
and RHV on RHEL.
The documentation, if you check the source, is generated for both oVirt
and RHV. I didn't check, but guess that only the RHV flow gets RHEL
instructions re channels etc.
> > Since original CentOS no longer really exists either, does anyone have
> > any opinions or experience with installing oVirt on any of:
> >
> > - CentOS Stream 8
> >
> > - Alma Linux 8.5
> >
> > - Rocky Linux
> >
> > Alma in particular looks like a straight replacement for old CentOS.
> >
>
> I've used CentOS Stream 8 reasonably okay for this, but AlmaLinux
> would work too.
I didn't actually try Alma, but I suspect we might have problems with
ansible playbooks / random scripts which match "centos".
I didn't try it either, but we did fix a few relevant locations recently -
most recent IIRC was:
https://gerrit.ovirt.org/c/ovirt-engine/+/118229
We'll be happy to get success/failure (with details) reports of attempts
to install/setup both engine and hosts on other OSes.
Next step is probably for someone to try and build an oVirt node image
based on a different OS...
I did build an alma-8.5 virt-builder template today though.
Perhaps I am missing something - is this oVirt-specific, or
relevant?
Thanks and best regards,
--
Didi