[Users] Update from 3.2 to 3.3 (CentOS 6.4)

[Itamar Heim]

On 09/21/2013 06:16 PM, Vincent Van der Kussen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just updated our oVirt 3.2 test setup to 3.3 without problems. One thing
> seems to be changed. instead of running "engine-upgrade" you need to run
> "ovirt-setup"

that's worth either having a symlink for, or updating release notes / 
various places in wiki mentioning this.

>
> _Vincent
>
>> On 09/16/2013 06:41 PM, H. Haven Liu wrote:
>>> Thanks for the discussion. But for those of us that are not using
>>> gluster, but just good ol' NFS, is updating simply "yum update
>>> ovirt-*"?
>>>
>>
>> No, yum update won't upgrade ovirt packages.
>>
>> If you're running on Fedora, you need to update Fedora first, then run
>> engine-upgrade.  If you're on EL6, a simple engine-upgrade should work.
>>
>> Ofer,  any other gotchas?  Can you have someone create a 3.2 to 3.3
>> upgrade page on the wiki?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>> On Sep 16, 2013, at 2:54 PM, Mike Burns <mburns at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 09/16/2013 05:26 PM, Joop wrote:
>>>>> Mike Burns wrote:
>>>>>> On 09/16/2013 04:30 PM, Joop wrote:
>>>>>>> H. Haven Liu wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Is there any recommended procedure for updating from 3.2 to
>>>>>>>> 3.3 (namely on a CentOS 6.4 system), or anything one should
>>>>>>>> be careful when doing such update?
>>>>>>> Be careful when you use glusterfs, not nfs over glusterfs,
>>>>>>> but read the release-notes. It should have something to say
>>>>>>> about glusterfs domain not (yet) working on el6. Saw a small
>>>>>>> discussion on irc just yet and my two cents are that you
>>>>>>> can't add el6 support to ovirt in release 3.2 and then
>>>>>>> withdraw it with 3.3 and say well just wait for
>>>>>>> Centos/Rhel-6.5.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We haven't removed any functionality in 3.3.  In 3.2, we added
>>>>>> support for gluster domains through a POSIXFS interface.  In
>>>>>> 3.3, we're adding a feature where we support gluster natively.
>>>>>> This works in Fedora, but is not available on EL6.  The POSIXFS
>>>>>> option still exists
>>>>> You're right but what about users who want to use the (much)
>>>>> improved speed of the gluster domain over the POSIXFS interface?
>>>>> They are left out or they should move to Fed19 which I would do
>>>>> but I need to convince a couple of other people as well and they
>>>>> aren't going to agree.
>>>>
>>>> I understand the complaint, honestly.  And we're working on a
>>>> solution so that it will work for people on EL6.
>>>>
>>>>  From the perspective of whether we should release with this
>>>> limitation or not, I'd point out that by not releasing, we'd be
>>>> preventing everyone from using any of the new features until we get
>>>> a solution for this. I'd rather release and make it available for
>>>> everyone now and say that the Gluster domain for EL6 will come as
>>>> soon as we can work out the dependency issues.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The kernel can come from elrepo so that is not a burden for
>>>>>>> the ovirt team, qemu/libvirt should be build by the ovirt
>>>>>>> team and be available from the ovirt repo. At the moment I
>>>>>>> also see/saw Jboss-7.1.1 qemu/libvirt wouldn't be the first
>>>>>>> packages to be in the ovirt-repo which are also in the main
>>>>>>> distributions repos.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We're trying to work out a way to do this in a consistent
>>>>>> manner going forward.  We should have a solution soon, but in
>>>>>> the meantime, the other functionality and features should work
>>>>>> on both Fedora and EL6.
>>>>> Thanks for the clarification and I'm waiting eagerly for
>>>>> what/when the solution comes out.
>>>>
>>>> There have been a few considerations for solving this including
>>>> rebuilding pure upstream or fedora packages for EL6.  That is a
>>>> risky solution in my mind since there are rather large deltas
>>>> between Fedora and EL6.  We're looking at whether we can have a
>>>> "virt-preview" type of repo for EL6 similar to what exists today
>>>> for Fedora[1].
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> Mike
>>>>
>>>> [1]
>>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_Preview_Repository
>>>>>
>>>>> Joop
>>>>>
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