On Tuesday, July 23, 2019, Yedidyah Bar David <didi@redhat.com> wrote:

On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 11:53 PM Jingjie Jiang <jingjie.jiang@oracle.com> wrote:

Hi David,

(Actually it's "Yedidyah" or "Didi")
Thanks for your info.

Please check my reply inline.

-Jingjie

On 7/16/19 3:55 AM, Yedidyah Bar David wrote:
On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 10:46 PM <jingjie.jiang@oracle.com> wrote:
Hi,
Can someone tell me how to generate  ovirt-engine-appliance ova file in ovirt-engine-appliance-4.3-20190610.1.el7.x86_64.rpm?
You might want to check the project's source code:

https://github.com/ovirt/ovirt-appliance/

Or study the logs of a CI build of it:

https://jenkins.ovirt.org/job/ovirt-appliance_master_build-artifacts-el7-x86_64/

I never tried building it myself locally, though.
I tried to build after checked out the source code from https://github.com/ovirt/ovirt-appliance/,

but the build failed.

# make
livemedia-creator --make-disk --ram=2048 --vcpus=4 --iso=boot.iso --ks=ovirt-engine-appliance.ks --qcow2 --image-name=ovirt-engine-appliance.qcow2
2019-07-22 12:34:00,095: livemedia-creator 19.7.19-1
2019-07-22 12:34:00,154: disk_size = 51GiB
2019-07-22 12:34:00,154: disk_img = /var/tmp/ovirt-engine-appliance.qcow2
2019-07-22 12:34:00,154: install_log = /root/ovirt/ovirt-appliance/engine-appliance/virt-install.log
mount: /dev/loop0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
Formatting '/var/tmp/ovirt-engine-appliance.qcow2', fmt=qcow2 size=54760833024 encryption=off cluster_size=65536 lazy_refcounts=off
2019-07-22 12:34:10,195: Running virt-install.

Starting install...
Retrieving file vmlinuz...                                  | 6.3 MB 00:00
Retrieving file initrd.img...                               | 50 MB 00:00
Domain installation still in progress. You can reconnect to
the console to complete the installation process.
......
2019-07-22 12:35:15,281: Installation error detected. See logfile.
2019-07-22 12:35:15,283: Shutting down LiveOS-27f2dc2b-4b30-4eb1-adcd-b5ab50fdbf55
Domain LiveOS-27f2dc2b-4b30-4eb1-adcd-b5ab50fdbf55 destroyed

Domain LiveOS-27f2dc2b-4b30-4eb1-adcd-b5ab50fdbf55 has been undefined

2019-07-22 12:35:15,599: unmounting the iso
2019-07-22 12:35:20,612: Install failed: virt_install failed
2019-07-22 12:35:20,613: Removing bad disk image
2019-07-22 12:35:20,613: virt_install failed
make: *** [ovirt-engine-appliance.qcow2] Error 1

In the log I found the error as following from virt-install.log:

16:35:07,472 ERR anaconda:CmdlineError: The following mandatory spokes are not completed:#012Installation source#012Software selection
16:35:07,472 DEBUG anaconda:running handleException
16:35:07,473 CRIT anaconda:Traceback (most recent call last):#012#012 File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/ui/tui/simpleline/base.py", line 352, in _mainloop#012    prompt = last_screen.prompt(self._screens[-1][1])#012#012 File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/ui/tui/hubs/summary.py", line 107, in prompt#012    raise CmdlineError(errtxt)#012#012CmdlineError: The following mandatory spokes are not completed:#012Installation source#012Software selection
16:35:08,020 DEBUG anaconda:Gtk cannot be initialized
16:35:08,020 DEBUG anaconda:In the main thread, running exception handler
16:35:08,386 NOTICE multipathd:zram0: add path (uevent)
16:35:08,386 NOTICE multipathd:zram0: spurious uevent, path already in pathvec
16:35:08,386 NOTICE multipathd:zram0: HDIO_GETGEO failed with 25
16:35:08,386 ERR multipathd:zram0: failed to get path uid
16:35:08,388 ERR multipathd:uevent trigger error

Can you help me to fix the issue?
Sorry, I never tried to build it myself, nor have experience with livemedia-creator. As I wrote above, I suggest to compare your output/result with that of oVirt CI. Otherwise, I'd probably start debugging by searching the net for the error messages you received.

Good luck and best regards,
I tried to import ovirt-engine-appliance ova(ovirt-engine-appliance-4.3-20190610.1.el7.ova) from ovirt-engine, but I got error as following:
Failed to load VM configuration from OVA file: /var/tmp/ovirt-engine-appliance-4.2-20190121.1.el7.ova
No idea why this failed.
I guess ovirt-engine-appliance-4.2-20190121.1.el7.ova has more than CentOS7.6.
It has CentOS + oVirt engine.

The only major use for it is by hosted-engine --deploy. In theory you
can try importing it elsewhere, but I do not recall reports about
people that tried this and whether it works.

Best regards,
--

Didi