[ovirt-users] Re: Installing oVirt on RHEL vs CentOS Stream, Alma or Rocky Linux
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.
> 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 did build an alma-8.5 virt-builder template today though.
Rich.
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