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[Andres Gonzalez]

Thanks !

Looks that there's a problem with the CentOS repo:

*[root at localhost ~]# yum install rhev-agent-pam-rhev-cred rhev-agent*
*Failed to set locale, defaulting to C*
*Loaded plugins: fastestmirror*
*Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile*
* * base: mirror.netglobalis.net*
* * commercial-addons: 66.128.53.13*
* * elastix-base: 66.128.53.13*
* * elastix-extras: 66.128.53.13*
* * elastix-updates: 66.128.53.13*
* * epel: epel.mirror.mendoza-conicet.gob.ar*
* * extras: mirror.netglobalis.net*
* * updates: mirror.netglobalis.net*
*ovirt-dre/primary

        | 7.0 kB     00:00     *
*http://www.dreyou.org/ovirt/ovirt-engine/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno
-3] Error performing checksum*
*Trying other mirror.*
*Error: failure: repodata/primary.xml.gz from ovirt-dre: [Errno 256] No
more mirrors to try.*


Regards.


On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Robert Middleswarth <
robert at middleswarth.net> wrote:

>  On 07/09/2012 10:40 AM, Andres Gonzalez wrote:
>
> Hi !!
>
> Reading the oVirt installation guide says that when a local ISO storage
> domain is configured during installation the virtio-win ISO and Virtual
> Floppy Drive (VFD) images, containing the VirtIO drivers for Windows
> virtual machines, are automatically copied to the new storage domain. The rhev-tools-setup
> ISO, containing the oVirt Guest Tools for Windows virtual machines are
> also copied to the domain.
>
> I'm running oVirt under FC 16, and I don't have those packages installed,
> what could it be ?
>
> I downloaded from
> http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/bin/ the
> iso file but it doesn't have the floppy file (useful for the Windows setup
> installation) and also drivers for Windows 2008.
>
> Under RHEV when having a Windows VM at the admin GUI you can see what
> applications are installed, IP address, who's logged in, etc., on the VM.
> This is possible on oVirt too ?
>
> Is there any guest tool for Linux VMs ? (RHEL or CentOS)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Regards.-
> --
> AGD
>
>
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>  This is a known limit of ovirt.  You can use the Same ISO / floppy disk
> for windows that is used for RHEV.  For whatever reason the floppy isn't
> available from Red Hat any-more.  You can get the last known release of it
> using the way back machine.
> http://web.archive.org/web/20110501124422/http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/bin/virtio-win-1.1.16.vfd
>
> I have no access to RHEL to confirm but I have been told that RHEV drivers
> work fine under ovirt.
>
> CentOS you can download those from
> http://wiki.dreyou.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/ovirt_rpm_start .  You need to
> add the repo listed at the top and then if you look at the bottom there is
> the install for the guest.
>
> Thanks
> Robert
>
>
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AGD
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