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

[Karli Sjöberg]

Den 5 jul 2014 15:57 skrev Brad Bendy <brad.bendy at gmail.com>:
>
> 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?

None:) We switched long ago to CentOS and have never looked back, even with these issues. Not worth the headache that is Fedora.

/K

> 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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