Re: [ovirt-users] my notes while installing hosted-engine-appliance-3.6.3
On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 5:39 PM, Dan Kenigsberg <danken(a)redhat.com> wrote:
0. The longest part of the installation was setting up DNS-DHCP-MAC for the
future hosted engine VM. One should have it ready prior to the actual
installation. Luckily, Roy Golan told me of that ahead of time.
you can use /etc/hosts instead of DNS-DHCP-MAC for testing purposes
1. The release notes
http://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/releases/3.6/
refer to the Quick Start Guide, but the latter is not updated with 3.6
content.
and the release note page is a mess after the migration (opened
https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-site/issues/98 )
2. I've started with a fully-updated Fedora 23 host, and installed
http://plain.resources.ovirt.org/pub/yum-repo/ovirt-release36.rpm on
it.
3. It's a bad bad practice (don't try this at home), but I've modified
/etc/yum.repos.d/ovirt-3.6.repo to look for fc22 packages, as fc23 is
not
supported of ovirt-3.6.
4. The release notes ask to modify KexAlgorithms in sshd_config. This is a
bit
dishearting, and it would much better to explain WHY this is needed.
original wiki page had a link to the bz: BZ 1225531
<http://bugzilla.redhat.com/1225531>
which got dropped by the automated conversion to the new website format
(again, https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-site/issues/98 )
5.
http://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/heapplianceflow/
has two broken links to jobs that create the hosted engine appliance. I
found my appliance image in
http://jenkins.ovirt.org/job/ovirt-appliance_ovirt-3.6_build-artifacts-el...
Opened https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-site/issues/125
6. While running `hosted-engine --deploy` I was greeted with
[WARNING] OVF does not contain a valid image description, using
default.
which suggest that there's a little problem in the appliance, right?
Fabian, can you work with Dan and see why image description is missing?
7. After the installation, I've lost connection to my host: it appears that
prior to the installation, dhclient on the host used something other
than
because /var/lib/dhclient/dhclient--eno1.lease to store the DUID. Thus,
I've
experienced https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1219429 where ovirtmgmt was
given a
fresh IP address. We may need to extract DUID right from the running
dhclient, Ondra.
have you opened a bz for this?
8. After resolving this, and adding storage to the default datacenter,
Engine
has imported its own VM, and presented it clearly.
9. Despite the several hurdles and hacks, installation was quick and
uneventful.
Great!
Kudos to the hosted-engine, appliance, and sla teams!
Thanks,
--
Sandro Bonazzola
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