[Engine-devel] Fwd: [vdsm] ovirt-guest-agent on debian

[Vinzenz Feenstra]

On 03/11/2014 09:23 AM, Itamar Heim wrote:
> On 03/11/2014 10:09 AM, Sven Kieske wrote:
>> Forwarding to engine devel, because it seems there is no interest in
>> this feature on vdsm-devel.
There is definitely an interest, I just haven't seen this email 
yesterday but this morning.
Sorry for that.
>>
>> Could this get integrated somehow?
>> I managed to reuse the ubuntu build of ovirt-guest-agent for debian.
>
> vinznenz?
>
>>
>>
>> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
>> Betreff: [vdsm]  ovirt-guest-agent on debian
>> Datum: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 09:36:11 +0000
>> Von: Sven Kieske <S.Kieske at mittwald.de>
>> An: VDSM Project Development <vdsm-devel at lists.fedorahosted.org>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just did some additional research, here are my results:
>>
>> on a clean debian 7 x64 VM inside oVirt:
>>
>> I did as root:
>> apt-get install python-software-properties
>> add-apt-repository -y ppa:zhshzhou/vdsm-ubuntu
>>
>> vim /etc/apt/sources.list.d/zhshzhou-vdsm-ubuntu-wheezy.list
>>
>> change the following lines from:
>>
>> deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/zhshzhou/vdsm-ubuntu/ubuntu wheezy main
>> deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/zhshzhou/vdsm-ubuntu/ubuntu wheezy main
>>
>> to:
>>
>> deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/zhshzhou/vdsm-ubuntu/ubuntu precise main
>> deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/zhshzhou/vdsm-ubuntu/ubuntu precise 
>> main
>>
>> then:
>>
>> apt-get update
>> apt-get install ovirt-guest-agent
>>
>> You get an error:
>>
>> Setting up ovirt-guest-agent (1.0.8.201309301944.gitb7f8f2-1ppa1) ...
>> chown: cannot access `/var/log/ovirt-guest-agent/ovirt-guest-agent.log':
>> No such file or directory
>>
>> but it works:
>>
>> ls -lashi /var/log/ovirt-guest-agent/ovirt-guest-agent.log
>> 533212 4.0K -rw-r--r-- 1 ovirtagent ovirtagent 208 Mar 10 10:20
>> /var/log/ovirt-guest-agent/ovirt-guest-agent.log
>>
>> service ovirt-guest-agent status
>> [ ok ] ovirt-guest-agent is running.
>>
>> IP information shows up in ovirt.
>>
>> it would be cool if the folder "precise" on the ppa could
>> be cloned to be a folder "wheezy".
>>
>> So you would not need to change the apt-sources entries.
>>
>> I don't know why this chown error occurs, but it seems to work!
>>
>>
>
>


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