Re: [ovirt-users] ovirt-hosted-engine-setup and single machine install

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 9:05 AM, Roman Mohr <rmohr(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > Hi Johan, > > On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 9:39 PM, Johan Vermeulen <jameslast29(a)gmail.com&gt; > wrote: > >> Hello All, >> >> after configuring a first setup, based on the quick start guide, I'm now >> looking >> at the hosted-engine setup. >> My question is: after I do the hosted-engine-setup, how do I setup vm's >> on the same >> machine that hosts the now-virtualized engine? >> > > You can add this host like any other host. You will then also see the > hosted engine VM as a special VM in the VMs tab of the web admin portal. > Just make sure that your VM can reach the physical host. > Just an addition: your first host will be automatically added to your engine so you don't have to do anything special on that. hosted-engine on the other side, is using a dedicated storage domain for the engine VM and you cannot use it for other VMs so you still need to add a second storage domain for regular VMs. Take care that loopback mounting NFS could lead to deadlocks: https://lwn.net/Articles/595652/ On a single host with the storage on the same host iSCSI seams more reliable. > >> Greetings, J. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> Users(a)ovirt.org >> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> >> > Best Regards, > Roman > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > >