[ovirt-devel] Engine on Fedora 21

[Yedidyah Bar David]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Greg Sheremeta" <gshereme at redhat.com>
> To: "Adam Litke" <alitke at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Juan Hernández" <jhernand at redhat.com>, devel at ovirt.org
> Sent: Monday, February 2, 2015 10:41:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-devel] Engine on Fedora 21
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Adam Litke" <alitke at redhat.com>
> > To: "Juan Hernández" <jhernand at redhat.com>
> > Cc: devel at ovirt.org
> > Sent: Monday, February 2, 2015 2:26:29 PM
> > Subject: Re: [ovirt-devel] Engine on Fedora 21
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> via yum or did you just download it?
> 
> Perhaps depending on your answer, can't this fulfill the F21 support
> feature?

Perhaps, but Java 7 is expected to be end-of-life on April 2015, so
we should plan on upgrading anyway.
-- 
Didi