[Users] ovirt-guest-agent on debian?

[Doron Fediuck]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "René Koch" <rkoch at linuxland.at>
> To: "Doron Fediuck" <dfediuck at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Boudewijn Ector" <boudewijn at boudewijnector.nl>, users at ovirt.org, "Brian Proffitt" <bproffit at redhat.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 9, 2014 12:30:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [Users] ovirt-guest-agent on debian?
> 
> On 04/08/2014 06:06 PM, Doron Fediuck wrote:
> >
> >
> > ----- 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?
> 
> I have the following guests:
> RHEL 6		- guest agent from EPEL
> CentOS 6	- guest agent from EPEL
> RHEL 5		- guest agent from RHEL repositories
> Fedora 20	- guest agent from Fedora repository
> Solaris 10	- no guest agent
> Solaris 11	- no guest agent
> Ubuntu 12.04	- guest agent from launchpad
> Debian 7	- guest agent from launchpad (Ubuntu Precise)
> 
> I don't have openSUSE running on my new setup anymore, but guest agent
> from build.opensuse.org did work fine. SLES 11 didn't work.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> René
> 
> >
> > We may want to update the wiki with the list you have.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Doron
> >
> 

Thanks.
I'll make sure it's documented.