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

[Vincent Van der Kussen]

> 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.

This is mentioned when running engine-upgrade.
>
>>
>> _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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