[Users] Virtualized hypervisor?

[Itamar Heim]

On 10/31/2013 12:48 PM, Joop wrote:
> Hallo Peter,
>> Hello Itamar,
>>
>> Thank you for responding. The only machine i have is my Windows 7 pc
>> (Intel i7, 16Gb ram). I'm running the manager in Virtualbox and want
>> to run the hypervisor in Virtualbox or VMware Workstation, just for
>> study purposes. I'm using RHEL6 for the manager and wanted to use it
>> for the Hypervisor as well. So, unfortunatly i don't have an extra
>> physical machine available.
>>
>>
> I have same machine specs @home and have installed Fedora 19 on a
> separate partition to play with oVirt. Depending on where you place your
> VMs you don't need much room for that. Isos you can leave on your
> Windows drive(s) and if you have a NAS you can put the VM storage (NFS)
> on it. If not then you can use thin provisioning to keep the size down
> but anything from 50-100G will get you a decent working oVirt
> installation on either Fedora 19 or Centos-6.4
> Running a complete ovirt env in virtualbox is not possible since you
> can't have nested virt on Virtualbox. The engine will run but you will
> have nothing to play around with!
> A nested virt env using a core i7 work quite well so it might be worth
> the trouble and time spent on installing fedora/centos on a new
> partition and start using dual boot. With an all-in-one setup you can do
> nested virt. Beware Centos needs a newer kernel than the 2.6.32.abc.
> Look at the elrepo repository for newer, upto 3.11.x.
>

well, one more idea - to play with it, you can use the ovirt-live usb 
edition. no need for any nested virt, etc. just boot from usb, its all 
from RAM, etc.

quoting doron from another email...
"Simply booting a laptop from usb is the best and fastest way.
You have here the latest iso to be used when burning the usb:
http://resources.ovirt.org/releases/3.3/tools/

You should run something similar the the below command as root:
dd bs=4M if={path/to/}ovirt-live-el6.iso of=/dev/sdb

=> make sure to fix the path to the iso and bverrify your usb device
is sdb, to avoid deleting your harddrive."

more details here:
http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_Live