[Users] Wondering about updating ovirt from 3.0 to 3.1

[Jason Brooks]

On 07/12/2012 06:08 PM, Robert Middleswarth wrote:
> On 07/12/2012 03:01 PM, Dominic Kaiser wrote:
>> So does Fedora 16 have an Ovirt 3.1 repo?  It seems best way to do
>> this correct me if I am wrong:
> No.  There are no Fedora 16 Repo's
>>
>> 1. Uninstall 3.0
>> 2. engine-cleanup do not drop database
>> 3. Reinstall
>>
>> Good to go right?  Will this mess with vm's already running etc.
> Pretty certain this will break things badly.
>
> The un-test but the way that should work is.
>
> Uninstall oVirt 3.0 do not engine-clean
> Upgrade from Fedora 16 to Fedora 17.
> Add the beta repo's
> yum clean all
> Yum install ovirt-engine
> Run enginue-upgrade and follow it instructions


Has anyone else tested this? I just tried it on a test rig of F16 
running 3.0, upgrading to 3.1 beta on F17. All the steps completed fine, 
except that I had to remove ovirt-engine-jbossas, which conflicted with 
the new, from Fedora, jboss-as, before installing ovirt-engine 3.1.

After engine-upgrade completed, I wasn't able to access the engine. 
Jboss-as was stopped, as was httpd. Starting them up didn't make the 
engine accessible, though. I just got the default fedora pages for JBoss 
and for Apache.

On my own oVirt setup, I moved from 3.0 to 3.1 by moving my VMs and 
templates to my export domain, detaching my export and iso domains, and 
installing 3.1 from scratch, before importing my iso and export domains 
and ferrying my VMs and templates over to my new data domain.

What's the most sane upgrade advice we can offer to oVirt 3.0 users?

Jason


>
> Since I was stuck at the DMV all day I haven't had a change to test
> these instructions at all before doing these steps I would do a full
> backup of the DB and a snapshot of the system.  If you can clone the
> system and do these steps on a clone even better.
>
> Thanks
> Robert
>
>>
>> dk
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Robert Middleswarth
>> <robert at middleswarth.net <mailto:robert at middleswarth.net>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 07/12/2012 11:23 AM, Dominic Kaiser wrote:
>>>     What is the proper process for this in ovirt?  Or has someone
>>>     done it already?
>>     Testing is just getting started.  We have an idea of the steps but
>>     no one has actually done them to see if the upgrade works or not.
>>
>>     Thanks
>>     Robert
>>>
>>>     Thanks,
>>>
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>>
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