Hi Sandro,

Have not installed a hosted engine nor have installed an ovirt engine , have just installed an ovirt node in one of the bare metal servers and logged into the server using a cockpit.
When I browse to ovirt virtual machine "create New vm' is greyed out, is ovirt node dependent on the ovirt engine ?

Thanks,
Nagaraju


On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 5:54 PM Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo@redhat.com> wrote:


Il giorno lun 12 ott 2020 alle ore 14:20 Budur Nagaraju <nbudoor@gmail.com> ha scritto:
Have logged in using cockpit but unable to create vms,  is the behavior is like that? 

We can't use cockpit to create vms? 


yum install http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8/AppStream/x86_64/os/Packages/cockpit-machines-211.3-1.el8.noarch.rpm
should give you the cockpit plugin for running VMs.
Just be aware this is not a use case that involves oVirt bits, this is basically CentOS workflow.

 

Thanks, 
Nagaraju 

On Mon, Oct 12, 2020, 5:35 PM Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo@redhat.com> wrote:


Il giorno lun 12 ott 2020 alle ore 12:36 Budur Nagaraju <nbudoor@gmail.com> ha scritto:
Hi

Is there a way to deploy  vms on the ovirt node without using the oVirt engine?

Hi,
if you mean:
"Can I use oVirt Node for running VMs without using oVirt Engine?"
then yes, you can.

oVirt Node is a CentOS Linux derivative and as such you can use virt-manager from your laptop to connect to it and manage VMs there as if it was a normal CentOS.
You can also use cockpit for creating local VMs.

If you mean:
"Can I create VMs from oVirt Node and also manage them from the engine?"
the short answer is no.
The long answer is: you can still try using cockpit-machines-ovirt https://cockpit-project.org/guide/172/feature-ovirtvirtualmachines.html
which was deprecated in oVIrt 4.3 and removed in 4.4.
Or run VMs on oVirt Node and try to make them visible to engine using KVM provider https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/administration_guide/#Adding_KVM_as_an_External_Provider
But I wouldn't recommend using these flows.

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