[Users] [oVirt Test Day 3] oVirt live

[Yedidyah Bar David]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Einav Cohen" <ecohen at redhat.com>
> To: "users" <users at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 7, 2014 1:24:08 AM
> Subject: [Users] [oVirt Test Day 3] oVirt live
> 
> 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]

Happened to me too (also while testing oVirt live during the test day).
/var/log/vdsm/vdsm.log was empty and owned by root:root. This makes me
think that the reason is [1].

The image I (and I guess you too) used was built on Mar 5, as you said
it was built from nightly repos, but wrongly used the old nightly repo
(prior to the introduction of /pub/snapshot*). So it included a somewhat
older vdsm - iirc nightly of Feb 26 or so. I was pretty certain that
the vdsm logs issue was solved in master/nightly much before that, but
I might be wrong - [1] points at a lot of changes and I didn't check
all of them. It was moved to ON_QA on Feb 4. I told Ohad about this and
he'll hopefully soon point the ovirt-live build at the new nightly repos.

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1055153
-- 
Didi