On 07/03/2012 03:48 PM, Martin Kletzander wrote: > Hi everyone, > > TL;DR: how do I setup a software node (faqemu) with apps from source? - do you wnat to setup an ovirt-node, or just install vdsm on plain fedora 17? sounds like the latter, but if you want to use fake-qemu, ovirt-node is much harder than just using a fedora 17. > > I'm new to the oVirt world and coming from the lower layer, I must admin > I feel kind of confused. > > I'm trying to create a "lab" with ovirt-engine (up and running), some > ovirt-node (with sw qemu) and ovirt-node with all the stack running on > git sources (qemu, libvirt, vdsm and ovirt-node). The problem is that I > only tried this before with ovirt-node ISO image and I don't know how > can I step in there and work with the system underneath. > > The whole point of this is to help speed up problem-solving in the > future for problems related to mostly libvirt. Having this available > should help us a lot. > > My main question is: What is the proper way to setup a node from > standard fedora installation (not ISO) and having software-emulated qemu > machine there? for using plain fedora 17 as a guest, you just need to: option 1: - yum install vdsm vdsdsm-hook-faqemu - vi /etc/vdsm/vdsm.conf and set vars.fake_kvm_support=True - now simply add the host from web admin (hosts-->add host) note: you may need this patch if not in your version of vdsm already: http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/5611/ option 2: if your host is fedora 16 and above, just use nested virtualization, and your virtual host would behave like a normal one (i still need to try this one out) i.e., just add the virtual host from web admin (hosts-->add host) I assume another step would be needed here (at least configuring the guest in libvirt to have nested virtualization), but i haven't tried this one yet to know what it is.

> > Thanks in advance for any tips and have a nice day, > Martin