Hi Alan,

I have oVirt running in a VM off my Desktop (Fedora 17 w/ KVM & Virt-Manager) off my iSCSI NAS.

I've attached Server #1 as my first host (it's running ovirt-node).

In the process of setting up my storage domains. I have a few questions to the experts out there:

1) How do I add my CD .ISOs to setup new VMs? Create iSCSI storage domain? But then how do I copy my ISOs to it?

2) Can I run my oVirt VM from ovirt-node machine, without running it in oVirt (ie. setup iSCSI in virt-manager (as it is now) and run oVirt from virt-manager... then I can manage my hosts through that ovirt VM?

Not sure if I'm making myself clear... but I'm making progress. I think as long as you are not managing your oVirt vm through oVirt itself, the solution should work fine! Just trying to see if I can get that done on an ovirt-node machine...

Thank you,

Nic


On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Alan Johnson <alan@datdec.com> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Nicolas Chenier <dascope@gmail.com> wrote:
I was under the impression that my oVirt VM would show up in oVirt and that I could manage it through there...
 
What you're saying is that I should just run it seperatly and not manage it with itself (oVirt)? keep it on my shared storage so that I can run it off any of the 2 servers? But not manage it with oVirt (itself). I think I'm starting to get it now...
 
I really appreciate your help!
 
Nic

Nic, how did you make out with this?  I'm looking to do the same thing and am wondering if there is any risk in running the engine on a VM managed by the same engine, as you were suggesting before.  Did you give this a shot?

Itamar, why did you steer Nic away from this?

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