October 2018 - Devel - oVirt List Archives

[action required] install ovirt-engine-ui-extensions for "migrate" button and dashboard
by Greg Sheremeta 18 Oct '18

18 Oct '18

Hi, To proof-of-concept moving features from GWT to react, we moved the "migrate" functionality in admin portal from GWT to ovirt-engine-ui-extensions [1]. We also moved the dashboard there and dropped ovirt-engine-dashboard. Please install this new project in your dev environment and then follow the installation instructions in the README [2]. You can skip this in your dev environment if you don't need the dashboard or migrate. [1] https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/admin/projects/ovirt-engine-ui-extensions [2] https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-engine-ui-extensions -- GREG SHEREMETA SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER - TEAM LEAD - RHV UX Red Hat NA <https://www.redhat.com/> gshereme(a)redhat.com IRC: gshereme <https://red.ht/sig>

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oVirt 4.2.7 RC3 build blocked
by Sandro Bonazzola 17 Oct '18

17 Oct '18

hi, blocking 4.2.7 RC3 build due to jenkins jobs disappeared deleting the builds to be released. Affected build is: https://jenkins.ovirt.org/job/ovirt-provider-ovn_4.2_build-artifacts-el7-x8… Job has been deleted with: commit 54d376c3b98bf446725348ca6ebaefabdae891d8 (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD) Author: Dafna Ron <dron(a)redhat.com> Date: Tue Oct 16 11:43:57 2018 +0100 Removed ovirt-provider-ovn v1 jobs Jira-ticket: https://ovirt-jira.atlassian.net/browse/OVIRT-2543 Change-Id: I141cbce1a9faeffbd11b7377dd7992dc0cdbd5ea Signed-off-by: Dafna Ron <dron(a)redhat.com> I'm going to revert above patch and re-trigger the build for that package. -- SANDRO BONAZZOLA MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA R&D RHV Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com/> sbonazzo(a)redhat.com <https://red.ht/sig> <https://www.redhat.com/en/events/red-hat-open-source-day-italia?sc_cid=701f…>

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[PTHREADING] No build for ppc64le and s390x, text fail on x86_64
by Nir Soffer 17 Oct '18

17 Oct '18

After adding Victor to jenkins whitelist, CI started to test https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/94974/ But we have only x86_64 jobs. This kind of project must have jobs for all platforms. The last maintainer was Yaniv Bronhaim, so I guess nobody remember why we have only x86_64 builds. I hope someone can help to move the project to new stdci and add ppc64le and s390x builds. While I was writing this the build completed with this failure: 00:01:01.195 ========== Running the shellscript automation/check-patch.sh 00:01:01.204 ./automation/check-patch.sh: line 3: tox: command not found This worked when I added tox for fedora 25. Looks like we need a simple patch to get tox on el7/fc28. Nir

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Re: List of Queries related to RHV
by Yaniv Lavi 16 Oct '18

16 Oct '18

YANIV LAVI SENIOR TECHNICAL PRODUCT MANAGER Red Hat Israel Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com/> 34 Jerusalem Road, Building A, 1st floor Ra'anana, Israel 4350109 ylavi(a)redhat.com T: +972-9-7692306/8272306 F: +972-9-7692223 IM: ylavi <https://red.ht/sig> TRIED. TESTED. TRUSTED. <https://redhat.com/trusted> @redhatnews <https://twitter.com/redhatnews> Red Hat <https://www.linkedin.com/company/red-hat> Red Hat <https://www.facebook.com/RedHatInc> On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 4:35 PM Mahesh Falmari <Mahesh.Falmari(a)veritas.com> wrote: > Hi Nir, > > We have few queries with respect to RHV which we would like to understand > from you. > > > > *1. Does RHV maintains the virtual machine configuration file in back end?* > > Just like we have configuration files for other hypervisors like for > VMware it is .vmx and for Hyper-V, it is .vmcx which captures most of the > virtual machine configuration information in that. On the similar lines, > does RHV also maintains such file? If not, what is the other way to get all > the virtual machine configuration information from a single API? > There is a OVF storage, but this is not meant for consumption. Please follow the first section in: *https://ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/storage/backup-restore-disk-snapshots/ <https://ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/storage/backup-restor…>* This explains how to use the API to get a OVF for a VM. > > > *2. Is VM UUID the only way to uniquely identify virtual machine in the > RHV infrastructure?* > > What we understand is that VM UUID is the way to identify virtual machine > uniquely in the RHV infrastructure. Would like to know any other way than > this? > UUID is the way to do this. > > > *3. Do we have any version associated with the virtual machine?* > > Just like we have hardware version in case of VMware and virtual machine > version in case of Hyper-V, does RHV also associate any such version with > virtual machine? > The HW version is based on the VM machine type. > > > *4. Is it possible to create virtual machines with QCOW2 as base disks > instead of RAW?* > > We would like to understand if there are any use cases customers prefer > creating virtual machines from QCOW2 as base disks instead of RAW ones. > That is a possibility in cases of thin disk on file storage. > > > *5. RHV Deployment* > > What kind of deployments you have come across in the field? Does customers > scale their infrastructure by adding more datacenters/clusters/nodes or > they add more RHV managers? What scenarios trigger having more than one RHV > manager? > We are all kind with oVirt. I depends on the use case. > > *6. Image transfer* > > We are trying to download disk chunks using multiple threads to improve > performance of reading data from RHV. Downloading 2 disk chunks > simultaneously via threads should take approximately the same time. But > from our observations this takes roughly 1.5 times. > Can RHVM server requests in parallel, if so are there any settings that > need to be tweaked? > > Here is an example: > Request 1 for chunk 1 from thread 1, Range: bytes=0-1023 > Request 2 for chunk 2 from thread 2, Range: bytes=1024-2047 > Takes roughly 1.5 seconds, whereas a single request would take 1 second. > Expecting it to take just around 1 second. > > > > *7. Free and Thaw operation* > > For cinder based VM, API recommended for FS consistent backup. > > - POST /api/vms/<ID>/freezefilesystems > - POST /api/vms/<ID>/thawfilesystems > > Why do we need this whereas it is not required for other storage? > Creating a snapshot does this for you in a case where you have the oVirt guest agent install on the guest. > > > Thanks & Regards, > Mahesh Falmari > > >

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VDSM API schema inconsistencies
by Marcin Sobczyk 16 Oct '18

16 Oct '18

Hi, when I was working on BZ#1624306 it turned out, that even if I'd fix the help-printing code in vdsm-client, there's still a lot of inconsistencies in API's schema files. After some investigation, I found that there's a code for reporting schema inconsistencies, but it's turned off because it bloats the logs. There's also a "strict" mode that raises an exception each time an inconsistency is found, but it's also off because there's so many of them. I think that no one wants to maintain both: the actual code and schema files. My idea would be to make the schema derived from the code at build time as a long-term effort. Before we can do that though, we need to address the inconsistencies first. https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/q/status:open+project:vdsm+branch:master+topic:v… This is a series of patches that helps fixing schema issues. What it does, is it adds a bunch of information from stack to vastly ease the process of fixing them. The logging level is also changed from 'WARNING' to 'DEBUG'. Here's an example of a logged entry: Host.setKsmTune With message: Required property pages_to_scan is not provided when calling Host.setKsmTune With backtrace: [ [ "_verify_object_type", { "call_arg_keys":[ "merge_across_nodes", "run" ], "schema_type_name":"KsmTuneParams" } ], [ "_verify_complex_type", { "schema_type_type":"object" } ] ] To make it work, a patch for OST's 'basic-master-suite' is on the way that switches 'schema.inconsistency' logger's logging level do 'DEBUG'. That way, we can find all reported errors in 'vdsm-schema-error.log' files. An initial report that groups reported errors by namespaces/methods has also been made. Please note, that an implementation that completely avoids error duplicates is really hard and IMHO not worth the effort. You can find the results here: * Host: https://pastebin.com/YM2XnvTV * Image: https://pastebin.com/GRc1yErL * LVMVolumeGroup: https://pastebin.com/R1276gTu * SDM: https://pastebin.com/P3tfYEDD * StorageDomain: https://pastebin.com/Q0DxKgF5 * StoragePool: https://pastebin.com/VXFWpfRC * VM: https://pastebin.com/tDC60c29 * Volume: https://pastebin.com/TYkr9Zsd * |jobs|: https://pastebin.com/jeXpYyz9 * |virt|: https://pastebin.com/nRREuEub Regards, Marcin

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vdsm has been tagged (v4.20.43)
by Milan Zamazal 16 Oct '18

16 Oct '18

Vdsm 4.20.43 for oVirt 4.2.7 rc3

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vdsm has been tagged (v4.30.1)
by Milan Zamazal 15 Oct '18

15 Oct '18

Vdsm 4.30.1 for the first 4.3 build from master

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Upgrade to WildFly 14.0.1
by Martin Perina 12 Oct '18

12 Oct '18

Hi, WildFly 14 packages are already available for both CentOS 7 and FC28, both oVirt engine master and 4.2 already contain fixes for compatibility with both WildFly 13 and 14, but please update your development machines to contain both ovirt-engine-wildfly-14.0.1 and ovirt-engine-wildfly-overlay-14.0.1 packages. Patch adding requirement for WildFly 14 is prepared [1], it should be merged tomorrow (Thursday), backport to 4.2 will follow immediately. Anyway if you find any issues related to this WildFly upgrade, please report a bug on it asap, we need to have everything fixed in 4.2.7. Thanks Martin [1] https://gerrit.ovirt.org/94824 -- Martin Perina Associate Manager, Software Engineering Red Hat Czech s.r.o.

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diskunmap hooks and oVirt Node
by Sandro Bonazzola 11 Oct '18

11 Oct '18

Hi, we just got Bug 1638317 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1638317> - "missing VDSM hook diskunmap in Node NG releases" opened as a bug, not an RFE, because "Pass discard from guest to underlying storage <https://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/storage/pass-disc…>" features introduced in oVirt 4.1 is not yet implemented for Cinder storage, for which Bug 1440230 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1440230> - "[RFE] Allow "Pass discard from guest to underlying storage" for Cinder. " has been opened. I'm writing to people involved in the hook introduction ( https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/29770/) to understand how safe is to include the hook in oVirt Node as default installed hook. I understand that the hook is going to add "discard=unmap" always, not only on Cinder. I don't know the implications of it being enabled other than supposedly fix the issue with Cinder storage. Looking at the feature page looks like this won't work with NFS storage, but other than not working, will it cause issues? I see Bug 1440230 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1440230> is un-targeted, is there any plan to get it into oVirt 4.3? We support Cinder/Ceph since 3.6 and pass discard is supported since 4.1, not sure about what prevented the pass discard to be implemented for Cinder as well in 4.1. Can someone elaborate? Thanks, -- SANDRO BONAZZOLA MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA R&D RHV Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com/> sbonazzo(a)redhat.com <https://red.ht/sig> <https://www.redhat.com/en/events/red-hat-open-source-day-italia?sc_cid=701f…>

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discussing the future of the upgrade suite in ost
by Dafna Ron 11 Oct '18

11 Oct '18

Hi All, I was reviewing the upgrade suites in ost and there are some issues that I am seeing in the suite tests-scenarios which I want to discuss and decide the future of. At it current state, I think we should remove the upgrade suite or most of the post test-scenarios as it is not testing what it should. The tests currently only test engine upgrade and basic sanity after the upgrade. This is problematic in a few ways: 1. upgrade should test the upgrade of rhv and not just a clean engine upgrade (i.e host, storage, vm). 2. as we have limited resources I do not think that the upgrade suite should be longer then the basic suite (and as we are currently running the basic suite after the upgrade it is longer) That brings me to question what should be essential to test in upgrade in the CI? I would also need someone in dev to volunteer and take ownership of the testing scenarios for upgrade - is there anyone that can help? Thanks, Dafna

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