[Users] Ovirt-engine

[Itamar Heim]

On 09/20/2013 11:44 AM, kumar shantanu wrote:
> Hi Rene,
>
> Thanks for your reply. My hypervisor is kvm which is already running on
> Centos6. Now I understand the fact that I can't simply connect kvm with
> ovrit-engine rather I will need to import machines from kvm to
> ovirt-engine but my hypervisor will still be kvm ? Am I right ?

yes. you could try to add the host to ovirt-engine, then create a VM, 
then dd the guest into the managed disk by ovirt-engine.
if you use a LUN per disk, you can also use the direct lun disk with 
ovirt-engine without porting/converting the data.

>
> On a different node what is the role of vdsm ?

its the agent on the hypervisor the engine uses to communicate with.

>
> Thanks
> Shantanu
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 8:25 PM, René Koch (ovido) <r.koch at ovido.at
> <mailto:r.koch at ovido.at>> wrote:
>
>     On Thu, 2013-09-19 at 20:00 +0530, kumar shantanu wrote:
>      > Hello Markus,
>      >
>      >
>      > Thanks for coming back so quickly. I will read the document shortly.
>      > In the mean time my kvm hypervisor is already running and it's
>      > attached to iscsi storage.
>      >
>      > Do I need to convert all machines ? or I can simply mange all the
>      > stuff through ovirt-engine like I am managing with virt-manager for
>      > now.
>
>
>     Your hypervisor must be CentOS 6 or Fedora 18/19 in order to be able to
>     manage it with oVirt (other Linux distributions are still a wip).
>
>     As oVirt has a totally different concept as virt-manager you have to
>     import your machines into oVirt. As Markus already wrote this can be
>     done using virt-v2v.
>
>
>     Regards,
>     René
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      > On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Markus Stockhausen
>      > <stockhausen at collogia.de <mailto:stockhausen at collogia.de>> wrote:
>      >         > Von: users-bounces at ovirt.org
>     <mailto:users-bounces at ovirt.org> [users-bounces at ovirt.org
>     <mailto:users-bounces at ovirt.org>]" im
>      >         Auftrag von "kumar shantanu [k.shantanu2006 at gmail.com
>     <mailto:k.shantanu2006 at gmail.com>]
>      >         > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 19. September 2013 14:49
>      >         > An: users
>      >         > Betreff: [Users] Ovirt-engine
>      >         >
>      >         > Hello Everyone ,
>      >         >
>      >         > Can I use ovirt-engine to mange my already
>     installed/running
>      >         kvm host/guest ?
>      >         > If yes can someone guide me to the documentation/howto
>      >         please ?
>      >         >
>      >         > Thanks
>      >         >
>      >         > Shantanu
>      >
>      >
>      >         Hello,
>      >
>      >         welcome to the list. ovirt uses a central management server
>      >         (ovirt-engine) that
>      >         manages the machine definition in a database. It controls VMs
>      >         on several hypervisor
>      >         hosts with this information. To get a VM into the
>     database you
>      >         have to import
>      >         it. virt-v2v helps me for VMWare sources and it should do the
>      >         trick for you. Find
>      >         more info in chapter A.1.2.4 of this page:
>      >
>      >
>     https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization_for_Servers/2.2/html/Administration_Guide/virt-v2v-scripts.html
>      >
>      >         Markus
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      >
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