[Users] oVirt 3.4 test day - results

[Michal Skrivanek]

On Jan 27, 2014, at 17:02 , Alexander Wels <awels at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi, I tested the following items during the test day and here are my results:
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> 1. "reboot VM" functionality
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> The related feature page is: http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Guest_Reboot
> The feature page mentions a policy selection checkbox which I was unable to find in the web admin UI at all. I checked the patches that implement the feature and did not see the check box implementation. The patches did show me that all I need to use the feature was to install the guest agent on the guest. So for my test I installed a fedora guest, and I installed the guest agent on the guest. After about a minute after starting the guest, the reboot button was enabled and pressing it started the reboot sequence on the guest. 
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> I had a console open on the guest and it informed me that the admin had started the reboot process and the guest would be rebooted in a minute. I did not find a way to change the time it took for the reboot to happen.
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> I did the same test with the REST api, with the same result. The reboot was scheduled for a minute after I issued the command. I did not find a way to change the time with the REST api either. I am guessing that is a future feature.

indeed. The scope of the feature was cut down significantly. No customizations other than via vdsm.conf. We hope we'll get the original promises in 3.5:)
The default 60 seconds delay time is for shutdown as well. The future customizations are to remove it.

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> 2. Fix Control-Alt-Delete functionality in console options
>  
> I had trouble getting spice to work in my test setup, but no issues with VNC. So I tested VNC. I checked the VM console options to make sure that 'Map ctrl-alt-del shortcut to ctrl+alt+end' was checked. Then I connected to a running VM with VNC. I pressed ctrl-+alt+end expected it to issue a ctrl-alt-del to the guest. Nothing happened. I pressed ctrl-alt-del and it properly issued ctrl-alt-del to the guest. I made sure there was no issue with my client by using the menu to issue a ctrl-alt-del to the guest which also resulted in the proper action on the guest. I opened a bug for this:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1057763
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> I did this test on my Fedora machine, and the description mentions that certain OSes capture the ctrl-alt-del before sending it to the guest, Fedora is not one of those OSes, so maybe my test was not valid?

it seems only the Windows version of virt-viewer supports the mapping. We'll grey it out for Linux clients then (or try to push the change to Linux versions as well, whichever can be done first)

Thanks,
michal

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> 3. Show name of the template in General tab for a VM if the VM is 
> deployed from template via clone allocation.
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> This is a very straight forward test. I created a template from a VM. I named the template. Then created a VM from that template using clone allocation. I verified that the name of the template is now properly shown in the VM general sub tab. Works as expected.
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> Overall I had issues getting engine installed due to the shmmax issue reported in other threads, and then I had a really hard time adding new hosts from a blank fedora minimum install. I was successful one out of three attempts, which I feel was probably an yum repository issue as I was getting conflicting python-cpopen issues causing VDSM to not start.
>  
> Thanks,
> Alexander
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