[Users] node spin including qemu-kvm-rhev?

[Fabian Deutsch]

Hey Paul,

Am Montag, den 07.04.2014, 01:28 -0700 schrieb Paul Jansen:
> I'm going to try top posting this time to see if it ends up looking a
> bit better on the list.

you could try sending text-only emails :)

> By the 'ovirt hypervisor packages' I meant installing the OS first of
> all and then making it into an ovirt 'node' by installing the required
> packages, rather than installing from a clean slate with the ovirt
> node iso.  Sorry if that was a bit unclear.

Okay - thanks for the explanation.
In general I would discourage from installing the ovirt-node package ona
normal host.
If you still want to try it be aware that the ovirt-node pkg might mess
with your system.

Greetings
fabian

> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> From: Fabian Deutsch 
> To: Paul Jansen 
> Cc: Doron Fediuck; users
> Sent: Monday, 7 April 2014 5:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [Users] node spin including qemu-kvm-rhev?
> 
> 
> Am Sonntag, den 06.04.2014, 19:15 -0700 schrieb Paul Jansen:
> > My mail client might mangle the bottom-posting here, so we'll see
> how
> > it goes.
> > I saw a post from Fabian that he had re-enabled jenkins builds of
> the
> > node image based on Fedora 19/20 (but not yet including the VDSM
> > plugin).  Presumably the main goal of this is to ensure that things
> in
> > node land are OK for an upcoming spin based on EL7?
> 
> EL7 is one point, but there were users also asking for Fedora based
> Nodes and we use Fedora for development, to have stable Nodes (at some
> point later) based on CentOS.
> 
> > If ovirt does go back to having Fedora and EL based node images in
> the
> > short term it would mean that live migration will work on the Fedora
> > images.
> 
> The Fedora based images are at least for now available from Jenkins.
> 
> > If it was also decided to allow the EL based node image to include
> the
> > recompiled qemu-kvm-rhev package the Ovirt release notes could then
> > say that when using an ovirt node image live migration is supported,
> > as is when a fedora install has the ovirt hypervisor packages
> > installed.
> 
> What is this ovirt hypervisor package you mention?
> 
> - fabian
> 
> 
> > It would only be that an EL based system - built up to then also
> > include the ovirt hypervisor packages - that live migration would
> not
> > be supported - at this stage.
> > This can change when the details are further worked out with the
> > Centos people about how the updated qemu-kvm packages will be hosted
> > and made available.
> > In the meantime, people that want to set things up so that live
> > migration is there can do so.
> > 
> > Once live migration is in place I think it would be interesting to
> try
> > and find out from people interested (or already testing ovirt) that
> > have VMware backgrounds/experience what they think is the the
> largest
> > outstanding issue feature wise when comparing ovirt to Vcenter.
> What
> > would stop them from migrating from vcenter to ovirt?
> 
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