[ovirt-users] Nested KVM for oVirt 4.1.2

Mon Jun 5 20:13:56 UTC 2017

I want to test oVirt with real hardware, no more nested VMs.
3 hosts, each vm will be Fedora (maybe CentOS, I prefer Fedora)
What is the install process?

On 2017-05-30 02:42, Sandro Bonazzola wrote:
> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 5:18 AM, <ovirt at fateknollogee.com> wrote:
> 
>> Sandro,
>> If & when one decides to "graduate" & use real hardware, what is the
>> install process?
> 
> The install process depends on how you want to design your lab .
> You can have a small deployment with just 3 hosts in hyperconverged
> setup or a large datacenter with 200 hypervisors and one or more
> dedicated SAN for the storage.
> If you go with an hyperconverged setup, you can install oVirt Node on
> 3 hosts and then on one of them use cockpit to deploy gluster and
> hosted engine on top of it in hyperconverged mode.
> 
> You can find an installation guide here:
> http://www.ovirt.org/documentation/install-guide/Installation_Guide/
> 
>> Is the gluster part still automated or that has to be done manually?
> 
> If you go with hyperconverged mode it's now automated. You can find
> more info here:
> http://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/gluster/gdeploy-cockpit-integration/
> Sahina, please ensure above link is updated. I see it shows the
> feature still in WIP while it's been released.
> 
>> Another question, what type of use cases & jobs is oVirt being
>> deployed in & how are people getting tech support?
> 
> About use cases for oVirt you can find some examples here:
> http://www.ovirt.org/community/user-stories/users-and-providers/
> If you want dedicated support, I would recommend to get a Red Hat
> Virtualization (which is oVirt with technical support and some
> additions) subscription getting Red Hat support.
> Another place to get support if you stay with oVirt is the community:
> this mailing list, the IRC channel and social media, have a look here
> for other contacts: http://www.ovirt.org/community/
> 
>> On 2017-05-29 04:33, Sandro Bonazzola wrote:
>> On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 10:21 AM, <ovirt at fateknollogee.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I assume people are using oVirt in production?
>> 
>> Sure, I was just wondering why you were running in nested
>> virtualization :-)
>> Being your use case a "playground" environment, I can suggest you to
>> have a look at Lago http://lago.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ [1]
>> and at Lago demo at https://github.com/lago-project/lago-demo [2]
>> to help you preparing an isolated test environment for your
>> learning.
>> 
>> On 2017-05-29 04:13, Sandro Bonazzola wrote:
>> On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 12:12 AM, <ovirt at fateknollogee.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
> http://community.redhat.com/blog/2013/08/testing-ovirt-3-3-with-nested-kvm/
>> [3]
>> [1]
>> [1]
>> 
>> I have one CentOS7 host (physical) & 3x oVirt nodes 4.1.2 (these are
>> vm's).
>> 
>> Hi, can you please share the use case for this setup?
>> 
>> I have installed vdsm-hook-nestedvm on the host.
>> 
>> Should I install vdsm-hook-macspoof on the 3x node vm's?
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>> --
>> 
>> SANDRO BONAZZOLA
>> 
>> ASSOCIATE MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA ENG VIRTUALIZATION R&D
>> 
>> Red Hat EMEA [3]
>> 
>> [4]
>> 
>> TRIED. TESTED. TRUSTED. [5]
>> 
>> Links:
>> ------
>> [1]
>> 
>> 
> http://community.redhat.com/blog/2013/08/testing-ovirt-3-3-with-nested-kvm/
>> [3]
>> [1]
>> [2] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users [4] [2]
>> [3] https://www.redhat.com/
>> [4] https://red.ht/sig
>> [5] https://redhat.com/trusted
>> 
>> --
>> 
>> SANDRO BONAZZOLA
>> 
>> ASSOCIATE MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA ENG VIRTUALIZATION R&D
>> 
>> Red Hat EMEA [3]
>> 
>> [4]
>> 
>> TRIED. TESTED. TRUSTED. [5]
>> 
>> Links:
>> ------
>> [1]
>> 
> http://community.redhat.com/blog/2013/08/testing-ovirt-3-3-with-nested-kvm/
>> [3]
>> [2] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users [4]
>> [3] https://www.redhat.com/
>> [4] https://red.ht/sig
>> [5] https://redhat.com/trusted
> 
> --
> 
> SANDRO BONAZZOLA
> 
> ASSOCIATE MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA ENG VIRTUALIZATION R&D
> 
> Red Hat EMEA [5]
> 
> 		 [6]
> 
> TRIED. TESTED. TRUSTED. [7]
> 
> 
> 
> Links:
> ------
> [1] http://lago.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
> [2] https://github.com/lago-project/lago-demo
> [3] 
> http://community.redhat.com/blog/2013/08/testing-ovirt-3-3-with-nested-kvm/
> [4] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
> [5] https://www.redhat.com/
> [6] https://red.ht/sig
> [7] https://redhat.com/trusted