oVirt Testing
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I tried using the "oVirt Node" ISO install, but didn't work. I think that was my fault due to not precreating a DNS record.
I liked doing it manually more anyways.
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@scottalanmiller said in oVirt Testing:
I'm excited about how this is looking. Certainly could be a huge deal for moving Hyper-V to the back seat.
It's immediately more useful than just Hyper-V.
It's like having SCVMM but on a more reliable platform. At least it feels that way so far, but I haven't pushed it like I have with Hyper-V so I guess I can give it the benefit of the doubt for now.
I've done quite a bit with SCVMM so I know what I'm talking about. I'm not saying SCVMM is bad... but it's not free.
I've yet to test the full HA capabilities in oVirt using local storage. I assume it will go well and as expected because its glusterfs.
Yeah, I'm going to push it hard in a production-like environment.
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More i look at these the more I want to play with KVM..... Job for Monday sort my one spare server out lol
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@tim_g
How hard was it to set it up without DNS records and login to it using direct IP ? and are you noticing any weird problems like slow to load or to refresh + disconnecting items and is this the BETA ?
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@emad-r said in oVirt Testing:
@tim_g
How hard was it to set it up without DNS records and login to it using direct IP ? and are you noticing any weird problems like slow to load or to refresh + disconnecting items and is this the BETA ?
It's easy to set up.
It requires FQDNs, so if you don't have a DNS server, the entry needs to be in the /etc/hosts file prior to setup for the oVirtEngine.
It is not Beta anything. oVirt has been around for a very long time. The interface and everything is production ready.
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@tim_g said in oVirt Testing:
@emad-r said in oVirt Testing:
@tim_g
How hard was it to set it up without DNS records and login to it using direct IP ? and are you noticing any weird problems like slow to load or to refresh + disconnecting items and is this the BETA ?
It's easy to set up.
It requires FQDNs, so if you don't have a DNS server, the entry needs to be in the /etc/hosts file prior to setup for the oVirtEngine.
It is not Beta anything. oVirt has been around for a very long time. The interface and everything is production ready.
I see, i meant this when I meant BETA:
https://ovirt.org/
https://ovirt.org/blog/2017/09/introducing-ovirt-4.2.0/ -
@emad-r said in oVirt Testing:
@tim_g said in oVirt Testing:
@emad-r said in oVirt Testing:
@tim_g
How hard was it to set it up without DNS records and login to it using direct IP ? and are you noticing any weird problems like slow to load or to refresh + disconnecting items and is this the BETA ?
It's easy to set up.
It requires FQDNs, so if you don't have a DNS server, the entry needs to be in the /etc/hosts file prior to setup for the oVirtEngine.
It is not Beta anything. oVirt has been around for a very long time. The interface and everything is production ready.
I see, i meant this when I meant BETA:
https://ovirt.org/
https://ovirt.org/blog/2017/09/introducing-ovirt-4.2.0/No I'm using 4.1.
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I’m curious to see how it works. It was slow (compared to bare KVM) the last time I tried it.
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@stacksofplates said in oVirt Testing:
I’m curious to see how it works. It was slow (compared to bare KVM) the last time I tried it.
I haven't noticed any difference on VMs versus HyperV or straight KVM.
But I've a lot more testing to do, so we'll see. I'll keep that in mind.
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As soon as my current desktop is migrated to my new machine, I will be spinning it back up as a KVM server. I will give oVirt a go for that.
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@tim_g said in oVirt Testing:
@stacksofplates said in oVirt Testing:
I’m curious to see how it works. It was slow (compared to bare KVM) the last time I tried it.
I haven't noticed any difference on VMs versus HyperV or straight KVM.
But I've a lot more testing to do, so we'll see. I'll keep that in mind.
It wasn’t VM performance, it was things like cloning and provisioning.
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@jaredbusch said in oVirt Testing:
As soon as my current desktop is migrated to my new machine, I will be spinning it back up as a KVM server. I will give oVirt a go for that.
You'll be required to have dual nics.
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@dustinb3403 said in oVirt Testing:
@jaredbusch said in oVirt Testing:
As soon as my current desktop is migrated to my new machine, I will be spinning it back up as a KVM server. I will give oVirt a go for that.
You'll be required to have dual nics.
I'm only using one NIC. I know it works because that test VM in my screenshot was installed via PXE (WDS server)
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@tim_g said in oVirt Testing:
@dustinb3403 said in oVirt Testing:
@jaredbusch said in oVirt Testing:
As soon as my current desktop is migrated to my new machine, I will be spinning it back up as a KVM server. I will give oVirt a go for that.
You'll be required to have dual nics.
I'm only using one NIC. I know it works because that test VM in my screenshot was installed via PXE (WDS server)
Does it? It must be me getting something messed up then . .
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I'm testing oVirt 4.2 beta on a CentOS 7.4, running on an x3300m4 a lot of CPU and ram...what can I say, it's much more complex and much less useful than the standard cli-based toolstack. I've spent almost 8 hours trying make everything works. Now I cannot upload any ISO to the ISO domain, so I can only import templates from the default OpenStack Glance repo, and some of them are broken... or, maybe is the cloud-init implementation?
I hope they will fix it in the stable 4.2. The interface is nice, but for now I stick with plain KVM. -
@francesco-provino said in oVirt Testing:
I'm testing oVirt 4.2 beta on a CentOS 7.4, running on an x3300m4 a lot of CPU and ram...what can I say, it's much more complex and much less useful than the standard cli-based toolstack. I've spent almost 8 hours trying make everything works. Now I cannot upload any ISO to the ISO domain, so I can only import templates from the default OpenStack Glance repo, and some of them are broken... or, maybe is the cloud-init implementation?
I hope they will fix it in the stable 4.2. The interface is nice, but for now I stick with plain KVM.That's odd.
Maybe it's a 4.2 beta issue.
I got mine up and running within 10 minutes of installing CentOS.
- Install CentOS from net install.
- Set up storage and DNS.
- Install oVirt packages from repository.
- Run oVirtEngine install script.
It was really quick and simple.
What did they change in 4.2 to make it so bad?
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@tim_g the interface is much nicer. But, I cannot upload the ISO in the datastore in ANY way. I haven't control over my virsh anymore. To get the CentOS accepted I had to downgrade the cluster level and re-up it after, other that disable completely firewalld and change the cluster default firewalld/iptables config.
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Other than that, the virtual console of the VMs is accesible only with a VNC/spice client, when Cockpit get it right with integrated console.
Maybe there is much of unknowed to me in oVirt, but I find it really a mess compared to KVM.
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I get an auth error when trying to use virsh... even entering the root or oVirt admin credentials does not help.
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@francesco-provino said in oVirt Testing:
I get an auth error when trying to use virsh... even entering the root or oVirt admin credentials does not help.
Of course this is a feature and not a bug, because vsdm holds the daemon... but I hate it. It makes all my libvirt knowledge useless.
