[Users] test day: using VM has host for vdsm

[Ryan Harper]

* Juan Hernandez <juan.hernandez at redhat.com> [2012-01-18 07:09]:
> On 01/18/2012 01:59 PM, Ryan Harper wrote:
> > I've created some f16 VMs that contain both ovirt-engine and a few
> > to run vdsm as nodes.  When I add in the VM host into the engine and it
> > attempts to install vdsm (even though I've already installed vdsm) the
> > install fails because the vdsm install script is checking to see if the
> > host has virt capabilities; since I'm not running nested KVM, this
> > fails.  Is there a way to work around this can enable a VM to be a host
> > in oVirt?  I had heard in the past there was a way to create fake VMs
> > when attempting to do ovirt-engine stress testing, wondering if that
> > might be of help here.
> 
> I think you need to add "fake_kvm_support = true" to "/etc/vdsm/vdsm.conf".

Excellent.

Now, any way to prevent ovirt-engine from attempting to install vdsm
when you add a new host?  I've already got vdsm running in the VMs I'm
pointing ovirt-engine at...


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Ryan Harper
Software Engineer; Linux Technology Center
IBM Corp., Austin, Tx
ryanh at us.ibm.com