[ovirt-users] ovirt question

Tue Apr 24 05:31:14 UTC 2018

inst.stage2 = This specifies the location to fetch ONLY the installer
runtime image; packages will be ignored. 

I think it is helping to streamline ovirt-node build, as installation part
is untouch OS and we deploy 2nd squash as image of node.

On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 9:38 PM, Justin Zygmont <jzygmont at proofpoint.com>
wrote:

> Thanks, but I still don’t understand why there are 2 squash images though.
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> *From:* Gianluca Cecchi [mailto:gianluca.cecchi at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Saturday, April 21, 2018 12:59 AM
> *To:* Justin Zygmont <jzygmont at proofpoint.com>
> *Cc:* users at ovirt.org
> *Subject:* Re: [ovirt-users] ovirt question
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> On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 3:11 AM, Justin Zygmont <jzygmont at proofpoint.com>
> wrote:
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> I was wondering why there has to be 2 node squash images?  A
> LiveOS/squash.img and a ovirt-node-ng-image.squashfs.img in the ISO for
> download, and which one should be used?
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> When doing a kickstart installation I noticed it uses the Live OS image
> from the inst.stage2= and in the kickstart.cfg it would reference the other
> node image from liveimg --url
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> Is there any documentation around doing kickstart installs with oVirt?
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> Thanks,
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> I too tried some weeks ago (4.2.1 if I remeber correctly) and was
> confused....
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> I was able to succesfully deploy, with these steps and pxe, also taking
> "inspiration" on what written at this link:
> https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-node-ng/blob/master/docs/book/install.md
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_oVirt_ovirt-2Dnode-2Dng_blob_master_docs_book_install.md&d=DwMFaQ&c=Vxt5e0Osvvt2gflwSlsJ5DmPGcPvTRKLJyp031rXjhg&r=FiPhL0Cl1ymZlnTyAIIL75tE4L0reHcDdD-7wUtUGHA&m=rgnKzgcbneUduKTLB3TK11-C0nujZ9pmv5fb29w3P6M&s=7e2QHo5p940uHfpIDVGgpWYEmvdU_hv19H4TzdDSdP0&e=>
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> note: my pxe server makes also as dhcp server and http server for install
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> - iso of node-ng-installer
> mounted (via loop in my case) under /var/www/html/ovnode42 of pxe server
>
> -under /var/www/html created directory ovnode2_stage2 containing
> product.img (6k of file) downloaded here:
> http://jenkins.ovirt.org/job/ovirt-node-ng_ovirt-4.2_build-
> artifacts-el7-x86_64/lastStableBuild/artifact/exported-artifacts/
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__jenkins.ovirt.org_job_ovirt-2Dnode-2Dng-5Fovirt-2D4.2-5Fbuild-2Dartifacts-2Del7-2Dx86-5F64_lastStableBuild_artifact_exported-2Dartifacts_&d=DwMFaQ&c=Vxt5e0Osvvt2gflwSlsJ5DmPGcPvTRKLJyp031rXjhg&r=FiPhL0Cl1ymZlnTyAIIL75tE4L0reHcDdD-7wUtUGHA&m=rgnKzgcbneUduKTLB3TK11-C0nujZ9pmv5fb29w3P6M&s=hd2ex3r30up9YjbMif_YZQkk6ONU9wynqDjXAaxXVbE&e=>
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> --> why not included..?
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> I think in theory one can downoad here also the file updates.img and it
> should update the base version of the iso... TBV (not tested by me)
>
> ---> where to get the updates.img? Perhaps inside
> ovirt-node-ng-image-update-x.y.z.rpm?
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> - inside ovnode2_stage2 created directory LiveOS and inside it created the
> link
> ln -sf /var/www/html/ovnode42/LiveOS/squashfs.img
> /var/www/html/ovnode42_stage2/LiveOS/squashfs.img
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> - the pxe file
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> It contains
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> default pxeboot
> timeout 50
> label pxeboot
> kernel vmlinuz.ovnode42
> append initrd=initrd.ovnode42.img inst.ks=http://192.168.122.1/ovnode42.ks
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__192.168.122.1_ovnode42.ks&d=DwMFaQ&c=Vxt5e0Osvvt2gflwSlsJ5DmPGcPvTRKLJyp031rXjhg&r=FiPhL0Cl1ymZlnTyAIIL75tE4L0reHcDdD-7wUtUGHA&m=rgnKzgcbneUduKTLB3TK11-C0nujZ9pmv5fb29w3P6M&s=2j4G8J91YRcAtTH5JYykwQauX3-YYwuAVOf_As5FMjs&e=>
> inst.stage2=http://192.168.122.1/ovnode42_stage2/
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__192.168.122.1_ovnode42-5Fstage2_&d=DwMFaQ&c=Vxt5e0Osvvt2gflwSlsJ5DmPGcPvTRKLJyp031rXjhg&r=FiPhL0Cl1ymZlnTyAIIL75tE4L0reHcDdD-7wUtUGHA&m=rgnKzgcbneUduKTLB3TK11-C0nujZ9pmv5fb29w3P6M&s=bgorHrFZRlkzBi4oljt0NO2kH8OsuS3Wpr8cj51lSdk&e=>
> verbose
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> - kickstart file
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> in /var/www/html created file ovnode42.ks
> it contains
>
> install
> lang en_US.UTF-8
> keyboard us
> rootpw  --plaintext my_password
> network --bootproto=dhcp
> timezone --utc Europe/Rome
> firewall --service=ssh
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> liveimg --url=http://192.168.122.1/ovnode42/ovirt-node-ng-image.
> squashfs.img
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__192.168.122.1_ovnode42_ovirt-2Dnode-2Dng-2Dimage.squashfs.img&d=DwMFaQ&c=Vxt5e0Osvvt2gflwSlsJ5DmPGcPvTRKLJyp031rXjhg&r=FiPhL0Cl1ymZlnTyAIIL75tE4L0reHcDdD-7wUtUGHA&m=rgnKzgcbneUduKTLB3TK11-C0nujZ9pmv5fb29w3P6M&s=1bhy8J4Y7Il6RBc8WYH0tD_35B2H-syyR9QGJsIBaSI&e=>
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> # partitioning - nuke and start fresh
> zerombr
> clearpart --all --initlabel
> autopart --type=thinp
> bootloader --location=mbr
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> #reboot
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> last line left commented to cross-check before reboot
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> at pxe boot the graphical install comes up and completes the install
> without any prompt
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> It only asks to reboot as I commented out the line above
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> verified that after reboot I was able to connect to the server at https on
> port 9090 and getting the node dashboard
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> any validation comment?
>
> HIH,
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> Gianluca
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