[Users] Install ovirt on EC2.

[Itamar Heim]

On 07/20/2012 05:22 AM, Steve Gordon wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com>
>> To: jdbjunior at gmail.com
>> Cc: users at ovirt.org
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 5:51:18 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Users] Install ovirt on EC2.
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>> On 07/18/2012 08:22 AM, jdbjunior at gmail.com wrote:
>>> For those of you testing ovirt. Is it possible to configure all of
>>> it
>>> using amazon ec2? And if possible, is there any public AMI
>>> preconfigured at amazon nowadays that one could use to get up and
>>> running easily. I'm unsure about the need of having a physical
>>> machine
>>> to try ovirt out. (or use amazon ec2/linode)
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>> you could run the engine on EC2.
>> but you can run guests on it (unless you use fake qemu, which will
>> launch fake guests).
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>> there isn't currently an AMI
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> I did actually build and provide an Engine AMI for one of our very early builds (even before the first formal release) which I blogged about [1] but I didn't end up doing a new one for the actual release. If there is interest I guess I could probably do it again, but without hosts somewhere to actually run VMs it's a very limited look at the engine. Especially with the new 'all in one' mode meaning with even just one host with virt extensions you can get some VMs up and running.
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> Steve
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> [1] http://rainhilltrials.blogspot.ca/2011/11/testing-ovirt-engine-on-amacon-ec2.html
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well, for someone to just play around to get an impression of 
capabilities, you could:
1. yum install vdsm vdsm-hook-faqemu ovirt-setup ovirt-engine 
ovirt-engine-setup-plugin-allinone
2. edit /etc/vdsm/vdsm.conf and set vars.fake_kvm_support=True
3. run ovirt-engine-setup

this should get you an all-in-one node in a guest, which you can do 
everything with, including creating and running virtual machines (fake 
one, which won't really run).