[Users] ovirt-guest-agent on debian?

[Doron Fediuck]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "René Koch" <rkoch at linuxland.at>
> To: "Boudewijn Ector" <boudewijn at boudewijnector.nl>, users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Monday, April 7, 2014 10:27:26 AM
> Subject: Re: [Users] ovirt-guest-agent on debian?
> 
> On 04/07/2014 12:01 AM, Boudewijn Ector wrote:
> > On 01-04-14 09:48, René Koch wrote:
> >> On 04/01/2014 09:18 AM, Sven Kieske wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> well I can use the guest agent for ubuntu 12.04 (precise)
> >>> really well on a debian 7 64 bit.
> >>
> >> I can confirm this - precise package works fine on Debian.
> >>
> > Hi Rene,Sven, ea,
> >
> >
> > How did you get it to actually work? I got the deb from
> > (http://ppa.launchpad.net/zhshzhou/vdsm-ubuntu/ubuntu/pool/main/o/ovirt-guest-agent/ovirt-guest-agent_1.0.9.20140216.git5168c4-1ppa1_all.deb)
> > , since I'm not willing to add ubuntu sources to my apt-configuration
> > since that might make me run into dependency troubles later on.
> 
> This one works fine with Debian:
> 
> https://launchpad.net/~zhshzhou/+archive/vdsm-ubuntu/+files/ovirt-guest-agent_1.0.8.201309301944.gitb7f8f2-1ppa1_all.deb
> 
> The version you try to use is for Ubuntu 13.10.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> René
> 
> 
> >
> > After downloading and dpkg -i'ing it, I ran an apt-get -f install in
> > order to get the dependencies. Then I reran dpkg:
> >
> >
> > root at host:~# dpkg -i
> > ovirt-guest-agent_1.0.9.20140216.git5168c4-1ppa1_all.deb
> > (Reading database ... 42961 files and directories currently installed.)
> > Preparing to unpack
> > ovirt-guest-agent_1.0.9.20140216.git5168c4-1ppa1_all.deb ...
> > invoke-rc.d: unknown initscript, /etc/init.d/ovirt-guest-agent not found.
> > dpkg: warning: subprocess old pre-removal script returned error exit
> > status 100
> > dpkg: trying script from the new package instead ...
> > invoke-rc.d: unknown initscript, /etc/init.d/ovirt-guest-agent not found.
> > dpkg: error processing archive
> > ovirt-guest-agent_1.0.9.20140216.git5168c4-1ppa1_all.deb (--install):
> >   subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 100
> > invoke-rc.d: unknown initscript, /etc/init.d/ovirt-guest-agent not found.
> > dpkg: error while cleaning up:
> >   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
> > status 100
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> >   ovirt-guest-agent_1.0.9.20140216.git5168c4-1ppa1_all.deb
> >
> > There's a configfile regarding initscripts in /etc/init,  but no such
> > thing on the sste, (I just had a look at the contents of the ubuntu
> > package too).
> > How did you resolve this? Creating my own initscript isn't that hard but
> > it sucks when it comes to having a maintainable setup...
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Boudewijn
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René,
do you have a list of distro's / agent you work with?

We may want to update the wiki with the list you have.

Thanks,
Doron