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

Jason Brooks jbrooks at redhat.com
Wed Jul 9 19:42:48 EDT 2014



----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brad Bendy" <brad.bendy at gmail.com>
> To: "Karli Sjöberg" <Karli.Sjoberg at slu.se>
> Cc: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Saturday, July 5, 2014 6:57:45 AM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Live Migration / Snapshots- CentOS 6.5
> 
> 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.

My current setup is on F20, with a hosted engine running on CentOS 6.5.

I mainly use Fedora because nested kvm works better there.

My storage is gluster, hosted on the F20 machines. I'm seeing some
SELinux issues right now, so I'm in permissive mode until I can 
file bugs for them.

Jason


> 
> 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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