[ovirt-devel] Engine on Fedora 21

[Adam Litke]

On 02/02/15 13:55 +0100, Juan Hernández wrote:
>On 02/02/2015 07:56 AM, Sandro Bonazzola wrote:
>> Il 29/01/2015 22:30, Adam Litke ha scritto:
>>> On 29/01/15 16:18 -0500, Yedidyah Bar David wrote:
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "Adam Litke" <alitke at redhat.com>
>>>>> To: devel at ovirt.org
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 9:46:27 PM
>>>>> Subject: [ovirt-devel] Engine on Fedora 21
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> Today I tried running engine on my Fedora 21 laptop.  I tried two
>>>>> approaches for deploying jboss: using the ovirt-jboss-as package, and
>>>>> by downloading and unpacking jboss-7.1.1 into /usr/share as I have
>>>>> done in the past.  engine-setup runs without errors but when I try to
>>>>> start engine the application does not seem to deploy in jboss and
>>>>> there are no errors reported (engine.log is empty).
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there a reasonable expectation that I should be able to get this
>>>>> working on F21 or am I wasting my time?  Does anyone have any ideas
>>>>> on how I can resolve the startup issues?
>>>>
>>>> Which Java version did you try to use it with?
>>>
>>> java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.31-3.b13.fc21.x86_64
>>>
>>>> Did you have a look at [1]? In short: won't be, wait for f22.
>>>
>>> Yeah, didn't see much documentation of specific issues and the tracker
>>> bug looks pretty clean as far as general engine usability goes.
>>>
>>
>> Everything should be installable right now in F21 but jboss-as 7.1 doesn't work with java 1.8.
>> We'll need to move to wildfly or backport java7 in order to make it working.
>>
>
>Alternatively, if it is for development purposes only, you may want to
>consider using JBoss EAP 6.x instead of JBoss AS 7.1.1. The root cause
>of the incompatibility has been fixed there (and in WildFly):
>
>  https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFLY-2057
>
>You can get JBoss EAP from here:
>
>  http://www.jboss.org/products/eap/download
>
>Then you can unzip it to your favorite directory and use it during
>installation of oVirt Engine:
>
>  # engine-setup --jboss-home=/whatever/jboss-eap-6.3
>
>It should work well with Java 8. If it doesn't work it is good to know,
>as we will need to fix it eventually.

Thanks for the suggestions everyone.  I ended up installing
openJDK-1.7 alongside the stock 1.8 and it's working again for me.
I'll try to give those other JBoss versions a try soon though.

-- 
Adam Litke