[ovirt-users] Complete CentOS 7 environment

[Yedidyah Bar David]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sandro Bonazzola" <sbonazzo at redhat.com>
> To: "Usman Aslam" <Usman.Aslam at tufts.edu>, "Robert Story" <rstory at tislabs.com>
> Cc: users at ovirt.org, "Yedidyah Bar David" <didi at redhat.com>
> Sent: Monday, December 15, 2014 9:53:28 AM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Complete CentOS 7 environment
> 
> Il 06/11/2014 20:35, Aslam, Usman ha scritto:
> > Thanks for the info Robert.
> > I'm setting up nodes with CentOS 7 and Engine is the only thing on 6.6
> > In your opinion, do you think it will be easy enough to rebuild the engine
> > on a CentOS 7 machine when support is available?
> 
> simple backup on 6 and restore on a clean 7 should work.

Indeed, although:
1. I didn't yet try that myself (yet?)
2. The opposite direction (7->6) might fail, due to postgresql in 7
dumping data that the version in 6 fails to parse/accept.

> 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Usman
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Robert Story [mailto:rstory at tislabs.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2014 2:12 PM
> > To: Aslam, Usman
> > Cc: users at ovirt.org
> > Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Complete CentOS 7 environment
> > 
> > On Thu, 6 Nov 2014 17:47:52 +0000 Usman wrote:
> > AU> We are upgrading hardware and I'm upgrading/rebuilding our Ovirt
> > AU> infrastructure. Are CentOS 7 host nodes supported? And can the
> > AU> engine be installed on CentOS 7? (3.5 repo isn't working for me)

It's likely that 3.5.1 will work, but contrary to nodes, there is not a big
difference between them for the engine.

> > 
> > CentOS 7 is supported for host nodes, but not the engine. If you have a
> > mixed CentOS 6/7 environment, note that migration works from 6->7 hosts,
> > but not from 7->6.
> > 
> > 
> > Robert
> > 
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