[ovirt-users] Live Migration / Snapshots- CentOS 6.5

Brad Bendy brad.bendy at gmail.com
Sat Jul 5 09:57:45 EDT 2014


If I use Fedora will "everything" work? I had numerous issues, IIRC I
could not even get the ovirtmgmt switch to install and a few other
things. What version of Fedora do you recommend then? Ill do another
install and give that a whirl again.

Thanks!

On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 10:33 PM, Karli Sjöberg <Karli.Sjoberg at slu.se> wrote:
>
> Den 5 jul 2014 07:04 skrev Brad Bendy <brad.bendy at gmail.com>:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Ive seeing conflicting info with what version of qemu rpms are needed
>> to do live migration under CentOS. It appears the stock ones will not
>> work and the RHEV ones are required. All the mailing list post I see
>> are from 3-4 months ago, so not sure.
>>
>> Im getting VDSGenericException: VDSErrorException: Failed to
>> SnapshotVDS, error = Snapshot failed, code = 48 (Failed with error
>> SNAPSHOT_FAILED and code 48)
>>
>> I also saw this thread:
>> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.centos.general/138593
>>
>> Ive been having issues getting those to install, but before I spent to
>> much more time I wanted to really see if I was on the right track.
>>
>> Is there a better OS choice? I first started trying with Fedora 19 and
>> 20 and has major issues, went to CentOS 6.5 and this is the first and
>> only issue so far ive ran into.
>>
>> Thanks!
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>
> Well, going with Fedora would at least get you the snapshots working, if I remember correctly, but that's not something you run in production. As you said, "major issues".
>
> For CentOS, you need "special" versions of certain packages, since RedHat wants you to pay for RHEV, they have chosen to cripple the standard packages so those features won't work:
> http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/devel/2014-June/007735.html
>
> And here you can find the packages you need:
> http://jenkins.ovirt.org/view/All/job/qemu-kvm-rhev_create-rpms_el6/lastStableBuild/
>
> /K


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