[ovirt-devel] What does your oVirt development environment look like?

[Adam Litke]

On 21/08/14 09:17 -0400, Greg Sheremeta wrote:
>Good idea.

Thanks, and thank you for sharing.

>
>I work on the UI, so I don't have much of a need for a complex setup. I
>have the two mini dells, and then I have two much more powerful personal
>machines that I use for work -- machine 1 (dauntless) is my main development
>machine, and machine 2 (starbase) is my main home server. I compile and run
>engine on dauntless, and starbase serves NFS and SMB. I don't have iscsi setup,
>although I probably should learn this. I use nested virt for all my hosts,

For a Friday afternoon project you might want to check out this easy
to follow guide for targetcli.  It's what I use for software iSCSI and
it works pretty well for me:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ISCSI_Target

>so mini dell 1 and mini dell 2 both run Fedora 20 and I basically just remote
>to them to install vms via virt-manager.
>
>I had cobbler running at one point, but I got frustrated with it one too many
>times and gave up. Now I just have a giant collection of isos available via
>NFS (and scattered on the desktops of the mini dells :)) I typically install
>fresh hosts using the F20 network-install iso. It's a little slower, but
>very reliable.

Yeah, I am wondering if this would be a better approach (though I
really do like the unattended PXE installations I can do with
cobbler).

>I tend to not need more than one of two database instances at a time.
>
>I gave up using my laptop for primary development because I need three monitors
>on my dev rig, and my laptop supports two max. (I'm currently heartbroken at
>the lack of USB3 video for linux. See [1].) I basically use my laptop as
>a remote viewer to dauntless now when I'm working in bed or wanting to sit out
>on the porch. (RealVNC encrypted mode -- I use an xrandr script to toggle off
>two of dauntless's monitors, and then I full-screen VNC.)
>
>Old pic of my desk: [2]

Wow,  I feel really low-tech with my single widescreen monitor here.

>Dauntless, starbase, the dells, and all monitors are connected to a giant UPS.
>Home network equipment is all connected to another UPS.
>
>I've given some thought to building a distributed compile of ovirt (specifically
>the GWT part -- maybe distribute each permutation to worker nodes), but I was
>under the impression that most people just use their laptop for work. I think
>a distributed compile would be pretty nice for me, but not sure how many people
>would use it. ?

I try to compile engine as infrequently as possible.  Due to what it
does to my running system, I usually reboot afterwords too.

-- 
Adam Litke