On 01/23/2012 07:22 PM, Juan Hernandez wrote:
On 01/23/2012 05:53 PM, Dave Allan wrote:
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:02:05PM +0100, Christian Parpart wrote:
Hi all,
as suggested in a prior mail, I was now trying out oVirt - however, on a non-Redhat/Debian system - and ran into huge issues primary due to the lag of information / documenation.
So here my assumptions: * oVirt is a web application based on JBoss application server. * VDSM is an agent to run on every hypervisor (or also VM?) * nothing else needed? (despite jboss, java-jdk-1.6, python-2.7, maven-2.2)
I tried following the install-from-source guides for oVirt and failed at a compilation error.
# cd $OVIRT_ENGINE_SRCDIR # make [.....] [INFO] Compiling 186 source files to /opt/ovirt/src/ovirt-engine/backend/manager/modules/dal/target/classes [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] BUILD FAILURE [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Compilation failure /opt/ovirt/src/ovirt-engine/backend/manager/modules/dal/src/main/java/org/ovirt/engine/core/dal/dbbroker/PGHack.java:[9,7] error: PGHack is not abstract and does not override abstract method getParentLogger() in CommonDataSource [...]
I think this build problem is happening because you are using JDK 7, which added a new method to the CommonDatasSource interface. You could implement it, but I think it is better if you compile with JDK 6, as that is the version that has been tested.
There are no remote branches nor tags that looked like "stable" that I could test on, too.
So finally (the not favoured version), I tried putting a Fedora 16 netinstall into a KVM on my hypervisor-test-node and installed everything in there, again, following some guide from the upstream site.
Since it did not compile anything, the install worked well, but I could not add my hypervisor node as a host, in fact, it complained about some tools not being able to be installed.
What tools? VDSM? how am I supposed to "cleanly" install it if not as promoted on the install guide? :(
In the end, I am having nothing working, feeling a little bit sad about the possibly wasted time, so I hope you guys can give me a hint on how to deal with VDSM (if that's what I am missing here) and how to deal with the compile error when installing from source.
Using VDSM with Debian is going to be difficult, I think, as it is quite Fedora specific right now. With Fedora it shouldn't be very hard. What are the specific problems that you are facing?
I actually think there is another community member working on Debian, sending patches to vdsm already to make it better. but Christian - let's get you working with F16 first so you will see it, then you can collaborate on the debian aspects. for example, see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=768919