[Users] New user to oVirt, and I haz a sad so far...

[Fabian Deutsch]

Hey Will,

that was surely a bad start and we know about the state of Node.

Please take a look at this email
http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/node-devel/2014-January/000581.html
to see where you can find a draft image which should address some bugs.

- fabian

Am Donnerstag, den 16.01.2014, 23:08 -0500 schrieb Will Dennis
(Live.com):
> In any case, I took one of their older servers which was already
> running
> CentOS 6.5, installed the requisite packages on it, and in short order
> had
> an engine server up and running (oVirt 3.3.2). That seems to have been
> the
> easy part :-/  Now came the installation of a hypervisor node. I
> downloaded
> and burned an ISO of the latest oVirt node installer
> (ovirt-node-iso-3.0.3-1.1.vdsm.fc19.iso) and tried to install it on
> one of
> their target Intel servers. On the 1st try I got to the end of the
> setup
> TUI, invoked the Install link, and was promptly thrown an error
> (sorry, but
> forgot what it was, something like "press X for a command prompt, or
> Reboot".) No problem, I rebooted, selected booting off the CD again,
> waited
> until the TUI came up, and when I tried to move past the first screen,
> it
> threw me out to a login prompt. OK, enough of that (the server takes a
> long
> time to reboot, and then boot off the CD) - I then thought I would try
> it on
> a VMware Workstation VM (yes, I get the irony, but VMware wkstn can
> handle
> nested virt, so it's a great testbed platform for OpenStack, etc.)
> because
> that would install a heck of a lot faster. That went a lot better -
> got the
> oVirt node 3.0.3 installed on the first try.
> 
> More pain was soon to follow, however.  I logged in and started
> configuring
> the node. The TUI was easy enough - much like an ESXi node ;)  I set
> the NIC
> to IPv4 static, entered in the correct IP info, registered a DNS name
> for
> the IP I had assigned, and then tested pinging the engine, all was
> good. I
> then moved on to the section where you define the engine. I entered in
> the
> FQDN of the engine, verified the key fingerprint, and clicked the
> "Save and
> Register" link at the bottom. That seemed to work, so I completed the
> rest
> of the TUI, and then looked at the oVirt engine web UI. There was my
> new
> node, ready for authorization. I clicked the link to authorize it, and
> after
> a while, the UI came back with "Install Failed" status. Hmmm. So I
> went back
> to the node's TUI, and now some of the screens said that the IP addr
> was
> unconfigured? I went then to the Network screen, and sure enough, the
> NIC at
> the bottom showed "Unconfigured". WTF? So I went and entered in the
> correct
> info back in the IPv4 section, and then arrowed down to the Save link
> and
> clicked it - and the next screen said something like "No info needing
> changes, nothing to do." Whaaaa? Went back to the network setup
> screen, NIC
> still showing "Unconfigured" even though the IPv4 info still was
> there. I
> did a ping test at this point from the Ping link on the network setup
> page,
> and what do you know - I could still ping IP's (the engine, the
> default gw,
> etc.) But as I moved around the TUI, other screens still said that the
> network was unconfigured. Went back to the Web UI of the engine, put
> the
> host in Maint, then tried to Activate it, still no go - Install
> Failed. Even
> though I had configured the node to allow remote access and set a
> password,
> and also verified via nmap that TCP port 22 on the node was indeed
> listening, when I tried to SSH into the node as admin, I immediately
> got a
> "connection closed" message, so that failed as well. Went back to the
> node's
> network setup page, set the IPv4 to "Disabled", saved it, then went
> back and
> set it back to "Static" then re-entered the IPv4 info. Clicked the
> Save
> link, it went thru the setup again, came back with a success, verified
> with
> ping etc. that networking was working on the node. The engine web UI
> still
> said that it could not connect to the node however. So I put the node
> in
> Maint, and then removed it.  I went back to the node, went to the
> Engine
> setup page, and re-did the screen to define the engine on the node. I
> notice
> that after I did this, however, that the node screens went back to
> saying
> that the network was unconfigured. Grrrrrr. But the node was back in
> the
> engine's Web UI, however no joy this time either - "Install failed"
> again.
> Well, the hell with this, said I - I removed the node again from the
> engine,
> and went and installed Fedora 19 minimal install on the VM, so I could
> use
> the directions found in
> http://www.ovirt.org/Quick_Start_Guide#Install_Fedora_Host and give
> that a
> try. (At least I can see what's going on with the node's OS using
> F19.)

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