[Users] installing ovirt engine on CentOS

[Nathan Stratton]

On Thu, 8 Mar 2012, Elias Abacioglu wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I want to install oVirt on a one-node-CentOS.
> So I found these two guides that I wanted to follow:
> http://www.ovirt.org/wiki/Installing_ovirt-engine_from_rpm
> http://www.ovirt.org/wiki/Installing_VDSM_from_rpm
>
> But then I got stuck on this step:
> # yum install -y ovirt-engine
>
> The errors I received was some packages had to low version number, and some
> was missing.
>
> ---- snip ----
> Error: Package: ovirt-engine-jboss-deps-3.0.0_0001-1.6.fc16.x86_64
> (ovirt-engine-stable)
>           Requires: hsqldb >= 1:1.8.0.10-9
>           Available: 1:hsqldb-1.8.0.10-8.el6.x86_64 (base)
>               hsqldb = 1:1.8.0.10-8.el6
> Error: Package: ovirt-engine-log-collector-3.0.0_0001-1.6.fc16.x86_64
> (ovirt-engine-stable)
>           Requires: python(abi) = 2.7
>           Installed: python-2.6.6-29.el6.x86_64
> (@anaconda-CentOS-201112091719.x86_64/6.2)
>               python(abi) = 2.6
> Error: Package: ovirt-engine-jboss-deps-3.0.0_0001-1.6.fc16.x86_64
> (ovirt-engine-stable)
>           Requires: jakarta-commons-discovery >= 1:0.4-7
>           Available: 1:jakarta-commons-discovery-0.4-5.4.el6.noarch (base)
>               jakarta-commons-discovery = 1:0.4-5.4.el6
> Error: Package: ovirt-engine-tools-common-3.0.0_0001-1.6.fc16.x86_64
> (ovirt-engine-stable)
>           Requires: jakarta-commons-configuration
> Error: Package: ovirt-engine-tools-common-3.0.0_0001-1.6.fc16.x86_64
> (ovirt-engine-stable)
>           Requires: jakarta-commons-jxpath
> Error: Package: ovirt-engine-3.0.0_0001-1.6.fc16.x86_64
> (ovirt-engine-stable)
>           Requires: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.14)(64bit)
> ---- snip ----
>
> Is there a way to install oVirt on CentOS 6.2 or RHEL 6.2? Has it been done
> with the latest stable release?
> Currently I have CentOS 6.2 installed with CentOS-Base, CentOS-Updates,
> CentOS-Extras and EPEL repositories installed. I would rather run CentOS
> than Fedora on this Virtualization Server since CentOS feels a bit more
> stable than Fedora.

Not today, ovirt requires some newer libs then available with Centos, I 
think your best bet is to stick with Fedora or if you need someting more 
hardened look at a commercial Red Hat Solution.


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