[ovirt-users] my notes while installing hosted-engine-appliance-3.6.3

[Sandro Bonazzola]

On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 5:39 PM, Dan Kenigsberg <danken at redhat.com> wrote:

>
> 0. The longest part of the installation was setting up DNS-DHCP-MAC for the
>    future hosted engine VM. One should have it ready prior to the actual
>    installation. Luckily, Roy Golan told me of that ahead of time.
>

you can use /etc/hosts instead of DNS-DHCP-MAC for testing purposes



>
> 1. The release notes
> http://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/releases/3.6/
>    refer to the Quick Start Guide, but the latter is not updated with 3.6
> content.
>

and the release note page is a mess after the migration (opened
https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-site/issues/98 )



>
> 2. I've started with a fully-updated Fedora 23 host, and installed
>    http://plain.resources.ovirt.org/pub/yum-repo/ovirt-release36.rpm on
> it.
>
> 3. It's a bad bad practice (don't try this at home), but I've modified
>    /etc/yum.repos.d/ovirt-3.6.repo to look for fc22 packages, as fc23 is
> not
>    supported of ovirt-3.6.
>
> 4. The release notes ask to modify KexAlgorithms in sshd_config. This is a
> bit
>    dishearting, and it would much better to explain WHY this is needed.
>

original wiki page had a link to the bz: BZ 1225531
<http://bugzilla.redhat.com/1225531>
which got dropped by the automated conversion to the new website format
(again, https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-site/issues/98 )



>
> 5.
> http://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/heapplianceflow/
>    has two broken links to jobs that create the hosted engine appliance. I
>    found my appliance image in
>
> http://jenkins.ovirt.org/job/ovirt-appliance_ovirt-3.6_build-artifacts-el7-x86_64/


Opened https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-site/issues/125




>
>
> 6. While running `hosted-engine --deploy` I was greeted with
>     [WARNING] OVF does not contain a valid image description, using
> default.
>    which suggest that there's a little problem in the appliance, right?
>

Fabian, can you work with Dan and see why image description is missing?



>
> 7. After the installation, I've lost connection to my host: it appears that
>    prior to the installation, dhclient on the host used something other
> than
>    because /var/lib/dhclient/dhclient--eno1.lease to store the DUID. Thus,
> I've
>    experienced https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1219429 where ovirtmgmt was
> given a
>    fresh IP address. We may need to extract DUID right from the running
>    dhclient, Ondra.
>

have you opened a bz for this?


>
> 8. After resolving this, and adding storage to the default datacenter,
> Engine
>    has imported its own VM, and presented it clearly.
>
> 9. Despite the several hurdles and hacks, installation was quick and
> uneventful.
>

Great!


>
> Kudos to the hosted-engine, appliance, and sla teams!
>
>
Thanks,

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Sandro Bonazzola
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