[ovirt-users] Guest agent for CentOS

[Yedidyah Bar David]

On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 7:18 AM, Jim Kusznir <jim at palousetech.com> wrote:
> Also, on the debian instructions, I found one error:
>
> Under "starting the service", the 2nd line (after su - ) states:
> service ovirt-guest-agent enable &&  service ovirt-guest-agent start
>
> However, on debian systems, the first part won't work.  The working version
> would read:
> update-rc.d ovirt-guest-agent enable &&  service ovirt-guest-agent start

Perhaps 'systemctl enable' will work for both? Debian uses systemd too now,
at least latest release.

>
> --Jim
>
> On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 9:14 PM, Jim Kusznir <jim at palousetech.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello:
>>
>> I'm wanting to install the guest agent in one of my CentOS VMs.  I looked
>> on the documentation, and found this page:
>>
>>
>> http://www.ovirt.org/documentation/internal/guest-agent/understanding-guest-agents-and-other-tools/
>>
>> It mentions that guest agent is available for CentOS, but does not provide
>> a link to instructions.  Due to similarities with Fedora, I followed the
>> link there.  It says to install "ovirt-guest-agent-common", but the package
>> isn't found.  I tried adding the ovirt SIG repos for my CentOS (7), and
>> re-searched, but still it is not found.  No links were provided to the RPM.
>>
>> Where do I find the CentOS guest agent?

I think you can find it in EPEL.

>>
>> Perhaps the documentation online should be updated with this information,
>> too...I'm sure I'm not the only one looking...

Would you like to send a pull request for this? This would be great!

Best,
-- 
Didi