10:02 a.m.
Hi, I tested the following items during the test day and here are my results:
1. "reboot VM" functionality
The related feature page is: http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Guest_Reboot
The feature page mentions a policy selection checkbox which I was unable to find in
the web admin UI at all. I checked the patches that implement the feature and did not
see the check box implementation. The patches did show me that all I need to use the
feature was to install the guest agent on the guest. So for my test I installed a fedora
guest, and I installed the guest agent on the guest. After about a minute after starting
the guest, the reboot button was enabled and pressing it started the reboot sequence
on the guest.
I had a console open on the guest and it informed me that the admin had started the
reboot process and the guest would be rebooted in a minute. I did not find a way to
change the time it took for the reboot to happen.
I did the same test with the REST api, with the same result. The reboot was scheduled
for a minute after I issued the command. I did not find a way to change the time with
the REST api either. I am guessing that is a future feature.
2. Fix Control-Alt-Delete functionality in console options
I had trouble getting spice to work in my test setup, but no issues with VNC. So I
tested VNC. I checked the VM console options to make sure that 'Map ctrl-alt-del
shortcut to ctrl+alt+end' was checked. Then I connected to a running VM with VNC. I
pressed ctrl-+alt+end expected it to issue a ctrl-alt-del to the guest. Nothing
happened. I pressed ctrl-alt-del and it properly issued ctrl-alt-del to the guest. I made
sure there was no issue with my client by using the menu to issue a ctrl-alt-del to the
guest which also resulted in the proper action on the guest. I opened a bug for this:
/https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1057763/[1]
I did this test on my Fedora machine, and the description mentions that certain OSes
capture the ctrl-alt-del before sending it to the guest, Fedora is not one of those OSes,
so maybe my test was not valid?
3. Show name of the template in General tab for a VM if the VM is
deployed from template via clone allocation.
This is a very straight forward test. I created a template from a VM. I named the
template. Then created a VM from that template using clone allocation. I verified that
the name of the template is now properly shown in the VM general sub tab. Works as
expected.
Overall I had issues getting engine installed due to the shmmax issue reported in
other threads, and then I had a really hard time adding new hosts from a blank fedora
minimum install. I was successful one out of three attempts, which I feel was probably
an yum repository issue as I was getting conflicting python-cpopen issues causing
VDSM to not start.
Thanks,
Alexander
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[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1057763