[ovirt-users] Ovirt nested in VMware

Mark Duggan mduggan at gmail.com
Fri May 12 11:16:55 UTC 2017


Michal

I certainly seem to be able to get that far, I can provide screen grabs if
you think it'd be useful.

I'm OK with hopelessly slow, for now. It's really just to POC the
interface, and work flows. I'm hoping to get my hands on a couple of
servers soon so that I can do a more full blooded test.

Mark

On May 12, 2017 07:06, "Michal Skrivanek" <michal.skrivanek at redhat.com>
wrote:

>
> > On 11 May 2017, at 19:52, Mark Duggan <mduggan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > From reading through the mailing list, it does appear that it's possible
> to have the ovirt nodes/hosts be VMware virtual machines, once I enable the
> appropriate settings on the VMware side. All seems to have gone well, I can
> see the hosts in the ovirt interface, but when I attempt to create and
> start a VM it never gets past printing the SeaBios version and the machine
> UUID to the screen/console. It doesn't appear to try to boot from the hard
> disk or an ISO that I've attached.
> >
> > Has anyone else encountered similar behaviour?
>
> I wouldn’t think you can even get that far.
> It may work with full emulation (non-kvm) but we kind of enforce it in
> oVirt so some changes are likely needed.
> Of course even if you succeed it’s going to be hopelessly slow. (or maybe
> it is indeed working and just runs very slow)
>
> Nested on a KVM hypervisor runs ok
>
> Thanks,
> michal
> >
> > Are there additional debug logs I can look at or enable to help further
> diagnose what is happening?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
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