[Users] [oVirt Test Day 3] oVirt live

[Einav Cohen]

based on [1]: 

I took the latest (actually, only) ovirt live iso from: 
http://jenkins.ovirt.org/view/All/job/ovirt_live_create_iso/
[http://i.imgur.com/o639iU7.png]

After running the iso (more details to follow), it turns out 
that this is a 3.5.0/master iso.
[http://i.imgur.com/OSO14tu.png]

Google'ing 'ovirt live' didn't bring any 3.4 related results. 
I found the GitHub which doesn't seem to have a 3.4 branch 
[http://i.imgur.com/hrsq5ps.png]
and the wiki page [2] that the latest iso in it seems to be 
an October 2013 one, which AFAIK is of ovirt-3.3.

details on running the ovirt 3.5.0/master live iso:

I used the 'VM' method.

I used a virt-manager VM on an already well-configured physical 
machine, so I skipped the instructions in the 'VM' section [3]. 

As the ISO seemed to be targeted at el6, I chose in virt-manager 
to create a RHEL 6 machine, which is the closest thing to el6 
that I could find in virt-manager options. 
(no CentOS option in virt-manager, as far as I could see)
[http://i.imgur.com/fQGGwXK.png]
[ignore the "3.4" in the name of the ISO - that's just the name 
that I gave to the ISO file since I wrongfully thought that it 
is a 3.4 one]

To allow the VM to function as a hypervisor, I copied the 
physical CPU configuration to the VM (which should include 
the virtualization-enabled stuff, AFAIK). 
[http://i.imgur.com/JHWwWkp.png]

[I successfully created virtual Hosts a lot of times, so I know 
the way to create the VM as I detailed above should work properly]

running the oVirt Live image started off smoothly, problem 
encountered when attempting to activate VDSM.
after waiting a lot of time for VDSM to activate, the installation 
finally gave up.
[http://i.imgur.com/tTotnNB.png]

I opened Firefox and browsed to http://localhost - the welcome 
page and web-admin GUI opened successfully, however I couldn't get 
much more details on the problem in there.
[http://i.imgur.com/FW4SWjl.png]

attached logs that may contain the reason for the failure. 

please let me know if you have any questions or comments.
I will gladly test ovirt-3.4 live ISO if you can point me to its 
location / the procedure for creating one. 

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Thanks,
Einav

[1] http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-February/021357.html

[2] http://wiki.ovirt.org/OVirt_Live

in the "What is it" section, it says:
"""
oVirt Live is an unofficial spin of live fedora 17[1,2], 
based on oVirt 3.1 release using allInOne[3] plugin.
"""
Maybe worth changing that to contain up-to-date versions, or 
(better IMO) - no versions at all. 

[3] A few notes about the instructions on the wiki:

- may be trivial, but it doesn't say anywhere that the commands 
should be invoked on your VM's Host (i.e. your *physical* machine, 
typically). 

- I know that in some machines you need to enable the 
virtualization capabilities in the BIOS - I don't know if that's 
in addition or instead the steps detailed in the page; if in 
addition, worth mentioning that in the wiki. 

- personally, the steps that worked for me is to update the 
"/boot/grub2/grub.cfg" file, I assume that the steps detailed 
in the page lead to the same result.

- I did not understand the following at all:
"""
add the <cpu> output from virsh to your vm xml adding 
match='exact' to <cpu>
"""
what virsh? which virsh command? what vm xml? where?
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