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

[Paul Jansen]

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> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Paul Jansen"
>> To: "Itamar Heim" "Fabian Deutsch"
>> Cc: "users"
>> Sent: Monday, April 7, 2014 3:25:19 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Users] node spin including qemu-kvm-rhev?
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>> On 04/07/2014 11:46 AM, Fabian Deutsch wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>> I'm pretty sure we are on the same page here. I just checked the ovirt
>> 'quickstart' page and it calls the various hypervisor nodes 'hosts'.
>> ie: Fedora host, EL, host, ovirt node host.
>> If the ovirt node included the qemu-kvm-rhev package - or an updated qemu-kvm
>> - it would mean that both ovirt node hosts and fedora hosts could both
>> support live storage migration. It would only be EL hosts that do not
>> support that feature at this stage. We could have a caveat in the
>> documentation for this perhaps.
>> Fabian, were you think thinking that if not all 'hosts' supported live
>> migration that the cluster could disable that feature? Based on capabilities
>> that the hosts would expose to the ovirt server? This would be another way
>> of avoiding the confusion.
>>
>> Thanks guys for the great work you are doing with ovirt.
>>
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> Paul,
> this is something that vdsm needs to report to the engine, so the engine will
> know what is / isn't supported. It's a bigger request as today we're mostly
> based on cluster compatibility level.
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> Additionally it is possible to mix .el hosts with nodes with old (non -rhev) nodes.
> Each of these cases will break live-storage migration.
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> How do you suggest to mitigate it?
>
Well, when you choose to migrate a VM under Vmware's Vcenter you can choose to migrate either the host or the datastore.  For whichever one you choose there is a validation step to check the you are able to perform the migration (ie: capabilities of the host).  I can see in ovirt that we are showing the KVM version on hosts.  This matches the package version of the qemu-kvm package (or the qemu-kvm-rhev package if installed?). Could we have some sort of a cutoff point where we know which versions of KVM (ie: qemu-kvm or qemu-kvm-rhev) support the storage migration feature, and if a version is found that doesn't match the required heuristics we just indicate the the validation process for the migration has failed?
We could provide some small output indicating why it has failed.
Does this sound like a reasonable approach?

Is there any news on discussions with the CentOS people as to where a qemu-kvm-rhev package could be hosted (that we could then take advantage of)?
If the hosting of an updated qemu-kvm (or qemu-kvm-rhev) is not sorted out in the short term, I did some quick calculations last night and it seems based on previous EL point releases (this is hardly scientific I know) we are not likely to see an EL 6.6 for another few months.  We may see an EL7.0 before that timeframe.
Ovirt can obviously jump on new EL releases to use as hosts in a new ovirt version but it seems this option is still some time away.
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