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

[Nicolas Chenier]

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?

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?

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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