[ovirt-users] ovirt guest agent iso

[Tiemen Ruiten]

Hello Lev,

It seems to have been caused by Ovirt Guest tools service that was left
behind and didnt't get updated. Looks OK now.


On 4 August 2014 22:15, Tiemen Ruiten <t.ruiten at rdmedia.com> wrote:

> Hello Lev,
>
> That's right, attach/mount the iso through the ovirt admin interface, then
> open the cd drive and double click on ovirt-guest-tools-setup.exe. I'm
> using Server 2012 R2 Standard. The same thing happened on all 12 servers I
> installed last week, but they were cloned from the same oVirt template
> though. I will try to reproduce this tomorrow with a clean install and also
> double check build number.
>
>
>
>
> On 4 August 2014 18:00, Lev Veyde <lveyde at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Tiemen,
>>
>> That is quite strange behaviour...
>>
>> I tried to reproduce this, but was unable to do so.
>> You simply double-click on the ovirt-guest-tools-setup executable file on
>> the CD right? Or you do something else?
>> If you do something different can you please explain the exact scenario
>> of what you do?
>>
>> Can you please provide me with the exact release details of 2K12R2 that
>> you're using? (I used Standard, Build 9600).
>>
>> Also, can you please try again installing the tools on the clean instance
>> of 2K12R2 ?
>>
>> Just as a side note, the ovirt-guest-tools-setup.exe can be copied to any
>> location and run from there, as it self-contains all the necessary files.
>> The installer doesn't copies any files from the CD's bin directory etc.,
>> nor it's supposed to run any of the files included on the CD.
>> The sole purpose of these files on the CD is for user's convenience, to
>> allow i.e. manual copying and installation of oVirt Guest Agent if one
>> desires so.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Lev Veyde.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Tiemen Ruiten" <t.ruiten at rdmedia.com>
>> To: lveyde at redhat.com, sbonazzo at redhat.com
>> Cc: users at ovirt.org
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 2:49:52 PM
>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] ovirt guest agent iso
>>
>> I'm afraid I have to retract my statement: After a reboot I discovered
>> the files are installed to C:\Program Files (x86)\oVirt Guest Tools, but
>> the service is installed with a path to the CD drive
>> (D:\bin\OvirtGuestService.exe).
>>
>> On 07/26/14 04:44, Tiemen Ruiten wrote:
>> > I installed the newest iso 3.5_5 on my Server 2012 R2 guests and it
>> > works nicely now.
>> >
>> > On 23-07-14 10:41, Lev Veyde wrote:
>> >> Hi Sandro,
>> >>
>> >> No, it doesn't.
>> >>
>> >> But the latest release (ISO 3.5_5) should support this OS.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks in advance,
>> >> Lev Veyde.
>> >>
>> >> ----- Original Message -----
>> >> From: "Sandro Bonazzola" <sbonazzo at redhat.com>
>> >> To: "Tiemen Ruiten" <t.ruiten at rdmedia.com>, users at ovirt.org,
>> lveyde at redhat.com, "Simone Tiraboschi" <stirabos at redhat.com>
>> >> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 11:08:11 AM
>> >> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] ovirt guest agent iso
>> >>
>> >> Il 23/07/2014 10:02, Tiemen Ruiten ha scritto:
>> >>> On 07/23/14 08:13, Sandro Bonazzola wrote:
>> >>>> Il 14/07/2014 10:21, Tiemen Ruiten ha scritto:
>> >>>>> On 07/11/14 17:13, Bob Doolittle wrote:
>> >>>>>> On 07/11/2014 11:12 AM, Bob Doolittle wrote:
>> >>>>>>> On 07/11/2014 10:55 AM, Tiemen Ruiten wrote:
>> >>>>>>>> Hello,
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>> Is it possible/advisable to install the Windows Guest Agent
>> tools 3.5
>> >>>>>>>> ISO on a VM on a 3.4.2 oVirt cluster?
>> >>>>>>> Yes. I've done just that. Works great.
>> >>>>>> Caveat - there was a bug related to not setting the Guest Agent to
>> >>>>>> autostart (at least for Windows 2008 R2). I think that's been fixed
>> >>>>>> but don't know if the fix has been pushed to the latest ISO yet.
>> >>>>>> Workaround - go into Services and change it from Manual to
>> Automatic.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> -Bob
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>> Unfortunately, I get 'Unsupported Windows version' on Windows Server
>> >>>>> 2012 R2.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>> Which release of the iso are you using?
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>> This one:
>> >>>
>> http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-master-snapshot-static/iso/ovirt-guest-tools/ovirt-guest-tools-3.5-2.iso
>> >>>
>> >> Lev, does above build include 2012 R2 support?
>> >> We're going to release a new build today as part of the 3.5.0 beta 2
>> release, can you re-test it once it's ready?
>> >>
>> >>
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>> --
>> Tiemen Ruiten
>> Systems Engineer
>> R&D Media
>>
>>
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> Tiemen Ruiten
> Systems Engineer
> R&D Media
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Tiemen Ruiten
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