[Users] [libvirt-users] oVirt setup issues

[Itamar Heim]

On 01/23/2012 07:22 PM, Juan Hernandez wrote:
> 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?

I actually think there is another community member working on Debian, 
sending patches to vdsm already to make it better.
but Christian - let's get you working with F16 first so you will see it, 
then you can collaborate on the debian aspects.

for example, see:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=768919