i wanted to do something "easy", so i decided to test ovirt-live. but there wasn't any for 3.3, so i'll just build it and test this is where i got today: 1. finding: no ovirt-live in repos for test day ok, i'll build it myself. 2. finding: the ovirt-live page[1] has no data on how to build it (link to ovirt-live git repo, readme in git repo, etc.) su -c "yum install git"[2] git clone git://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-live cd ovirt-live/centos ./build.sh 3. finding: build.sh is modifying a git managed file[3] - this shouldn't happen. 4. finding: i didn't notice build.sh warned me that: 4.1 "You need to be root to perform this command." since it continued downloading tinycore rather than exit with error 4.2 yum install -y livecd-tools probably should be in readme to pre-install it, and ./build.sh should check and exit with error, but not do the installation itself 5. yum install -y livecd-tools finding: no livecd-toold in rhel - referencing an rpm or instructions to build from source are needed cd ~ git clone git://git.fedorahosted.org/livecd cd livecd su -c "make install" cd ~/ovirt-live/centos 6. finding: re-running ./build.sh download tinycore and yad each time instead of checking is-modified-since 7. finding: missing check on selinux is disabled (required by livecd-creator according to [4]) (again looked in log, no info on screen): Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/livecd-creator", line 26, in <module> import selinux ImportError: No module named selinux disabled selinux. su -c "setenforce 0" (didn't resolve the selinux import error...) 8. finding: no validation libselinux-python is installed su -c "yum install -y libselinux-python" 9. finding: missing pykickstart from log: ImportError: No module named pykickstart.parser su -c "yum localinstall -y http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/i386/Packages/pykickstart-1.74.12-1.el6..." (mirror link is from [6]) 10. finding: missing rhpl from log: ImportError: No module named rhpl.keyboard su -c "yum localinstall -y http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/rhpl-0.221-2.el6.rf.x86_..." (mirror link is from[5]) 11. finding: (again) need to run as root "You must run /usr/bin/livecd-creator as root" 12. finding: noise output when re-running ./build.sh mkdir: cannot create directory `oVirtLiveFiles/rpms/': File exists mkdir: cannot create directory `oVirtLiveFiles/iso/': File exists mv: cannot stat `*.rpm': No such file or directory mv: cannot stat `*.iso': No such file or directory 13. finding: awk warnings when running ./build.sh awk: warning: escape sequence `\-' treated as plain `-' awk: warning: escape sequence `\/' treated as plain `/' 14. finding: ovirt not spelled oVirt Using title 'Ovirt Live' and product 'Ovirt Live' 15. finding: YumRepo Error: All mirror URLs are not using ftp, http[s] or file. Eg. 6Server is not a valid release or hasnt been released yet/ removing mirrorlist with no valid mirrors: /var/tmp/imgcreate-W8OJmj/install_root/var/cache/yum/base/mirrorlist.txt ... yum.Errors.RepoError: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: base. Please verify its path and try again 16. repo issues (not all are bugs) 16.1. (not a bug) - I'm runnning on rhel, not centos, so base repo is different for me than centos 16.2 (not a bug) - had to comment out yum-plugin-fastestmirror, not in rhel (should be optional...) 16.3 finding: should be configurable - ovirt repo version - git is static to 3.2, i needed beta. should be a parameter 16.4 finding: missing jboss-as package? added to kickstart link to stable repo 16.5 finding: livecd-tools-13.4.4-2.el6.x86_64 requires /sbin/extlinux doesn't help installing it, needs to be in the kickstart list of repos i did some more fiddling with repos here, trying to run this on RHEL rather than centos. 17. finding: Error creating Live CD : Unable to run ['/usr/bin/firewall-offline-cmd', '--enabled', '--service=mdns']! hmmm - there is no firewall on .el6? so far for today... [1] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_Live [2] i always start from the cleanest system when trying to test something. [3] kickstart/ovirt-live-base.ks [4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_a_Live_CD?rd=How_to_cre... "SELinux should be in permissive mode for livecd-creator to work. Run the following as root user first before attempting to create a live CD or DVD" [5] http://pkgs.org/centos-6-rhel-6/repoforge-x86_64/rhpl-0.221-2.el6.rf.x86_64.... [6] http://pkgs.org/centos-6-rhel-6/centos-rhel-i386/pykickstart-1.74.12-1.el6.n... [7] http://pkgs.org/centos-6-rhel-6/centos-rhel-x86_64/syslinux-extlinux-4.02-8....