[Users] oVirt Updates - Special KVM Forum/oVirt edition

[Vinzenz Feenstra]

On 10/30/2013 05:26 PM, Vinzenz Feenstra wrote:
> On 10/30/2013 05:24 PM, René Koch (ovido) wrote:
>> On Wed, 2013-10-30 at 15:55 +0100, Vinzenz Feenstra wrote:
>>> On 10/30/2013 03:35 PM, Vinzenz Feenstra wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 10/30/2013 03:34 PM, René Koch (ovido) wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 2013-10-30 at 13:33 +0100, Vinzenz Feenstra wrote:
>>>>>> On 10/28/2013 04:32 PM, Itamar Heim wrote:
>>>>>>> On 10/28/2013 05:19 PM, René Koch (ovido) wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Also, the guest-agent itself is just a python script that 
>>>>>>>>> should just
>>>>>>>>>> work. Just some packaging is required, so we're looking to 
>>>>>>>>>> revamp this
>>>>>>>>>> in build.opensuse.org, and hope some SUSE users will help us 
>>>>>>>>>> with
>>>>>>>>>> closing and testing this one.
>>>>>>>> I can help creating packages for SLES and openSUSE on 
>>>>>>>> build.opensuse.org
>>>>>>>> for latest guest agent without SSO (and of course test the 
>>>>>>>> packages) or
>>>>>>>> is Vinzenz Feenstra already working on it as I saw he pushed 
>>>>>>>> the sources
>>>>>>>> to OBS?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm sure Vinzenz will appreciate help with this one - so many 
>>>>>>> things
>>>>>>> to do...
>>>>>> Packages are now available for openSUSE 12.3, 13.1 and Factory, 
>>>>>> and SLES
>>>>>> 11 SP3
>>>>>> I also updated a packaged version of python-ethtool to 0.7 in that
>>>>>> repository. So that we have the full support of the features it 
>>>>>> provides.
>>>>> I just tested your guest agent packages on openSUSE 12.3 x86_64 -
>>>>> SLES 11 will follow...
>>>>>
>>>>> Everything works fine except application listing, as the packages
>>>>> have different names on openSUSE:
>>>>>
>>>>> Here's my application_list for openSUSE 12.3:
>>>>>
>>>>> # openSUSE Packages:    kernel-desktop ovirt-guest-agent-common
>>>>> xf86-video-qxl
>>>>> applications_list = kernel ovirt-guest-agent xorg-x11-drv-qxl
>>>>> linux-image xserver-xorg-video-qxl kernel-desktop
>>>>> ovirt-guest-agent-common xf86-video-qxl
>>>> Yeah right I forgot to check for the application names.
>>>> I'll update this immediately.
>>> Done. The repo has been updated with ovirt-guest-agent-common-1.0.8-3
>>> Thanks for reporting and testing :-)
>>
>> I just wanted to test the SLES 11 guest agent package, but there's only
>> a source rpm available, no binary rpm. According to the build log on
>> build.opensuse.org only the source rpm was created.
>>
>>
>> Also in build.log I see the following errors:
>>
>> [   73s] error: Recursion depth(17) greater than max(16)
>>
>> [   73s] error: line 104:     #
>> [   73s]         test -n "$FIRST_ARG" || FIRST_ARG=$1
>> [   73s]         if test "$FIRST_ARG" = "0" ; then
>> [   73s]        test -f /etc/sysconfig/services && . 
>> /etc/sysconfig/services
>> [   73s]            if test "$YAST_IS_RUNNING" != "instsys" -a 
>> "$DISABLE_STOP_ON_REMOVAL" != yes ; then
>> [   73s]               for service in
> Oh, strange that it passed then though. I will check with the guys on 
> freenode.net/#opensuse-buildservice
Ok I have fixed that issue however it seems like that there will be 
still an issue with finding a solution which does not need polkit or 
usermode to execute some things like shutdown, hibernate and lock session

I will investigate that further. In case you have an idea please let me 
know. Thanks.
>>
>>
>>>>> I tested these features and they are working fine:
>>>>> - shutdown guest
>>>>> - display memory
>>>>> - display ip address (both ipv4 and ipv6)
>>>>> - display applications
>>>>>
>>>>> Great job!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> René
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>     Itamar
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Vinzenz Feenstra | Senior Software Engineer
>>>> RedHat Engineering Virtualization R & D
>>>> Phone: +420 532 294 625
>>>> IRC: vfeenstr or evilissimo
>>>>
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>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Vinzenz Feenstra | Senior Software Engineer
>>> RedHat Engineering Virtualization R & D
>>> Phone: +420 532 294 625
>>> IRC: vfeenstr or evilissimo
>>>
>>> Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community 
>>> collaboration.
>>> See how it works at redhat.com
>
>


-- 
Regards,

Vinzenz Feenstra | Senior Software Engineer
RedHat Engineering Virtualization R & D
Phone: +420 532 294 625
IRC: vfeenstr or evilissimo

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