[Users] [libvirt-users] oVirt setup issues

[Juan Hernandez]

On 01/23/2012 05:53 PM, Dave Allan wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:02:05PM +0100, Christian Parpart wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> as suggested in a prior mail, I was now trying out oVirt - however, on
>> a non-Redhat/Debian system -
>> and ran into huge issues primary due to the lag of information / documenation.
>>
>> So here my assumptions:
>> * oVirt is a web application based on JBoss application server.
>> * VDSM is an agent to run on every hypervisor (or also VM?)
>> * nothing else needed? (despite jboss, java-jdk-1.6, python-2.7, maven-2.2)
>>
>> I tried following the install-from-source guides for oVirt and failed at
>> a compilation error.
>>
>> # cd $OVIRT_ENGINE_SRCDIR
>> # make
>> [.....]
>> [INFO] Compiling 186 source files to
>> /opt/ovirt/src/ovirt-engine/backend/manager/modules/dal/target/classes
>> [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> [ERROR] BUILD FAILURE
>> [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> [INFO] Compilation failure
>> /opt/ovirt/src/ovirt-engine/backend/manager/modules/dal/src/main/java/org/ovirt/engine/core/dal/dbbroker/PGHack.java:[9,7]
>> error: PGHack is not abstract and does not override abstract method
>> getParentLogger() in CommonDataSource
>> [...]

I think this build problem is happening because you are using JDK 7,
which added a new method to the CommonDatasSource interface. You could
implement it, but I think it is better if you compile with JDK 6, as
that is the version that has been tested.

>> There are no remote branches nor tags that looked like "stable" that I
>> could test on, too.
>>
>> So finally (the not favoured version), I tried putting a Fedora 16
>> netinstall into a KVM on my hypervisor-test-node
>> and installed everything in there, again, following some guide from
>> the upstream site.
>>
>> Since it did not compile anything, the install worked well, but I
>> could not add my hypervisor node
>> as a host, in fact, it complained about some tools not being able to
>> be installed.
>>
>> What tools? VDSM? how am I supposed to "cleanly" install it if not as
>> promoted on the install guide? :(
>>
>> In the end, I am having nothing working, feeling a little bit sad
>> about the possibly wasted time, so I hope you guys can give me a
>> hint on how to deal with VDSM (if that's what I am missing here) and
>> how to deal with the compile error when installing from source.

Using VDSM with Debian is going to be difficult, I think, as it is quite
Fedora specific right now. With Fedora it shouldn't be very hard. What
are the specific problems that you are facing?