[ovirt-devel] Engine on Fedora 21

[Adam Litke]

On 02/02/15 15:41 -0500, Greg Sheremeta wrote:
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>----- 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.
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>via yum or did you just download it?

Both :)  I had to use yumdownloader to grab the rpms from the f20 repo
and then install them using rpm --nodeps (since the 1.8 rpms from f21
have an Obseletes: openjdk-1.7).

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>Perhaps depending on your answer, can't this fulfill the F21 support
>feature?
>
>> I'll try to give those other JBoss versions a try soon though.
>>
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