[Users] Hello All I am new to ovirt and have a question

Mike Burns mburns at redhat.com
Wed Jan 18 18:54:48 UTC 2012


On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 13:42 -0500, Dominic Kaiser wrote:
> Ok so I will try the new iso.  For now I have intalled the stable vdsm
> packages instead of nightly.  I was able to get vdsm to register and
> the node is up.  Sweet Victory!  I would like to use the ovirt node
> iso in the future though.  I have begun to test with one node.  Still
> trying to connect to ISCSI Storage though.  I am trying to figure out
> all the requirements for ovirt.  Can we use local storage for one node
> to test?  

Yes, Local storage is supported, though I'm not familiar with the setup
necessary.

> Also I have a proper bridge setup for fedora 16 can we post to the
> wiki or is it one of you whom does that?

Anyone can update the wiki.  Just let me or someone else know what
username and email address you want to use for your wiki account and
we'll create it for you.  This manual creation is to attempt to minimize
spamming of the wiki.

Mike
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> Dominic
> 
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Mike Burns <mburns at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>         On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 12:51 -0500, Mike Burns wrote:
>         > On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 12:39 -0500, Dominic Kaiser wrote:
>         > > Thanks all,
>         > >
>         > >
>         > > I have tried the new ovirt node 2.2.1-3 nightly build
>         today and it
>         > > finally recognized my realtek nic card.  So I have moved
>         to try to get
>         > > node to install.  Still a fail I might add.  It adds to
>         the ovirt gui
>         > > but fails install and says the ovirt hyperviser is not a
>         supported
>         > > platform.  That is kind of funny since it is fedora 16.
>          And yes I had
>         > > edited the vdsm.conf by hand was that wrong to do?  Should
>         I have used
>         > > vi instead?  I would like to get ovirt node running since
>         it is
>         > > working now lighter install.  This is what I get:
>         > >
>         > >
>         > > 2012-Jan-17, 12:28:59
>         > > Failed to install Host
>         > > vm3.bostonvineyard.org.
>         > > Step: INSTALLER;
>         > > Details: Unsupported
>         > > platform:
>         > > oVirtNodeHypervisor.
>         > >
>         > >
>         > >
>         > > If it registers from ovirt node should it not show up in
>         the ovirt
>         > > Management gui?  Or do you still have to add it as usual?
>          So that is
>         > > what I did and that is the error I recieved.
>         >
>         > oVirt Node supports 2 ways of registering.
>         >
>         > 1.  Set the hostname and port of the management server
>         >       The Node registers itself to the engine and the admin
>         then only has to
>         > approve it.
>         
>         
>         This appears to not be working at the moment.  There are 404
>         errors in
>         the log.  I'll file a bug for the vdsm team to look into this.
>         
>         >
>         > 2.  Set a password and use add host from the engine
>         >       The node does no registration.  The admin for engine
>         manually adds the
>         > node as they would a regular Fedora node.
>         
>         
>         This is not working out of the box.  I get the same error you
>         do about
>         it being an unsupported platform.  I filed a bug [1] for this
>         issue with
>         a patch as well[2].  This patch can be applied directly on the
>         engine
>         system to get around the problem.  oVirtNodeHypervisor is
>         simply missing
>         from the list of supported systems.
>         
>         [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=782660
>         [2] http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#change,1117
>         
>         Mike
>         >
>         >
>         > As for the actual error, I've seen other problems with that
>         build of
>         > ovirt-node that I'm working on so I haven't tried to
>         register it yet.
>         > I'll try it though.
>         >
>         > Mike
>         >
>         > >
>         > >
>         > > Let me know what you think,
>         > >
>         > >
>         > > Dominic
>         > >
>         > > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Doron Fediuck
>         <dfediuck at redhat.com>
>         > > wrote:
>         > >         On Tuesday 17 January 2012 11:31:43 Dominic Kaiser
>         wrote:
>         > >         > Ok here are the log files. It installs most
>         packages and
>         > >         then hangs up on
>         > >         > libjpeg?  libjpeg is installed including dev
>         package.  This
>         > >         is a bare-metal
>         > >         > node running fedora 16 with vdsm packages
>         installed from
>         > >         repo.  Your node
>         > >         > .iso 2.2.1 does not initialize realtek nic cards
>         so I can
>         > >         not use that.
>         > >         > The 2.2.1 .iso sees the nic card but that is
>         it.  So I went
>         > >         the route of
>         > >         > installing the full fedora 16 distro and
>         installing vdsm
>         > >         packages from
>         > >         > repo.  I am bridged correctly and ssl=false in
>         the
>         > >         vdsm.conf.  Now when I
>         > >         > go to the ovirt management gui and install the
>         node it fails
>         > >         at this step.
>         > >         > I can see the node in ovirt management gui just
>         an fyi so
>         > >         not a problem
>         > >         > with detection.  It seems that the vdsm server
>         will not
>         > >         start due to
>         > >         > libjpeg install failure but mabey I am wrong.
>         > >         >
>         > >         > Let me know what you think,
>         > >         >
>         > >         > Dominic
>         > >         >
>         > >
>         > >         Hi Dominic,
>         > >         This is where your installation fails:
>         > >         ParsingError: File contains parsing
>         > >         errors: /etc/vdsm/vdsm.conf
>         > >                [line 42]: ' default_bridge = engine\n'
>         > >                [line 93]: ' ssl = false\n'
>         > >                [line 191]: ' management_port = 54321\n'
>         > >                [line 193]: ' management_ip = 10.3.0.245\n'
>         > >         Sun, 15 Jan 2012 08:01:27 DEBUG    <BSTRAP
>         > >         component='CreateConf' status='FAIL'
>         message='Basic
>         > >         configuration failed'/>
>         > >
>         > >         Now I'm wondering how did you
>         edit /etc/vdsm/vdsm.conf?
>         > >         Did you really add a string '\n' or is it just the
>         way the
>         > >         error propmts?
>         > >
>         > >         --
>         > >
>         > >         /d
>         > >
>         > >         "Air conditioned environment - Do NOT open
>         Windows!"
>         > >
>         > >
>         > >
>         > >
>         > >
>         > > --
>         > > Dominic Kaiser
>         > > Greater Boston Vineyard
>         > > Director of Operations
>         > >
>         > > cell: 617-230-1412
>         > > fax: 617-252-0238
>         > > email: dominic at bostonvineyard.org
>         > >
>         > >
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> email: dominic at bostonvineyard.org
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