[Users] Can oVirt be installed in a virtual machine?

[Nicolas Chenier]

Question - if oVirt goes down... do the ovirt-nodes and VMs remain up?


Keith, how would you set yourself up with these specs:

2 host servers (quad-core xeons with 32gigs of ram)
1 iSCSI NAS

Starting to think there is no way to achieve HA with this setup? oVirt
requires a dedicated machine?

Thank you!

Nic

PS. Could oVirt be integrated into ovirt-node on every server?



On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Keith Robertson <kroberts at redhat.com>wrote:

>  On 09/22/2012 01:09 PM, Nicolas Chenier wrote:
>
> Hi Alan,
>
> I have oVirt running in a VM off my Desktop (Fedora 17 w/ KVM &
> Virt-Manager) off my iSCSI NAS.
>
> I've attached Server #1 as my first host (it's running ovirt-node).
>
> In the process of setting up my storage domains. I have a few questions to
> the experts out there:
>
> 1) How do I add my CD .ISOs to setup new VMs? Create iSCSI storage domain?
> But then how do I copy my ISOs to it?
>
> Create an ISO storage domain and use the ovirt-iso-uploader to add your
> ISOs and .vfd files into that domain.
>
>
> 2) Can I run my oVirt VM from ovirt-node machine, without running it in
> oVirt (ie. setup iSCSI in virt-manager (as it is now) and run oVirt from
> virt-manager... then I can manage my hosts through that ovirt VM?
>
> Huh?  You could run the oVirt Manager from a VM managed by virt-manager...
> yes.  Running the oVirt manager inside a VM on a hypervisor (ie.
> ovirt-node) controlled by that same manager isn't supported AFAIK because
> the mgr. could get fenced.
>
> To summarize, you can pretty much run the oVirt manager on any supported
> OS as long as that OS instance isn't running on a hypervisor (ie.
> ovirt-node) controlled by *that* manager.
>
> If you haven't noticed the vocabulary to describe the various components
> can get a little confusing. ;)
>
>
>
> Not sure if I'm making myself clear... but I'm making progress. I think as
> long as you are not managing your oVirt vm through oVirt itself, the
> solution should work fine! Just trying to see if I can get that done on an
> ovirt-node machine...
>
> Thank you,
>
> Nic
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Alan Johnson <alan at datdec.com> wrote:
>
>>  On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Nicolas Chenier <dascope at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I was under the impression that my oVirt VM would show up in oVirt and
>>> that I could manage it through there...
>>>
>>> What you're saying is that I should just run it seperatly and not manage
>>> it with itself (oVirt)? keep it on my shared storage so that I can run it
>>> off any of the 2 servers? But not manage it with oVirt (itself). I think
>>> I'm starting to get it now...
>>>
>>> I really appreciate your help!
>>>
>>> Nic
>>>
>>
>>  Nic, how did you make out with this?  I'm looking to do the same thing
>> and am wondering if there is any risk in running the engine on a VM managed
>> by the same engine, as you were suggesting before.  Did you give this a
>> shot?
>>
>>  Itamar, why did you steer Nic away from this?
>>
>> _______________
>> Alan Johnson
>> alan at datdec.com
>>
>>
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