[Ovirt-devel] Build fails due to missing ovirt-node-recipe.ks

[Darryl L. Pierce]

(cc'ing ovirt-devel)

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 06:07:03PM +0200, Nicolas Ochem wrote:
> I built and installed everything from next repo in fedora 13 minimal
> following the build instructions in the website.
> Here are the problems I encountered :
> 
> - to build the image, you need to add the local repository to
> recipe/repos.ks
> - the instructions to build the server rpm are missing from the website
> - ace -d install ovirt has one error : package ovirt-node-image-pxe not
> found
> - I had to make the pxe images manually and add them to cobbler
> - mongrel issue ( fixed patch 30/07/2010)
> - the node boots in standalone mode instead of ovirt (fixed patch
> 30/07/2010)
> - ovirt_agent.rb is broken (the daemon runs but initialization fails)
> 
> I did not encounter the bug with host_register and matahari (with the
> latest version of matahari in the fedora 13 repo : 0.0.5-1)
> 
> 2 questions :
> 
> - since ovirt-node-image is deprecated, is there still a way to build
> ovirt-node-image and ovirt-node-image-pxe RPMs? It is useful to have
> everything, including PXE, configured just by doing ace install ovirt.

You shouldn't need to RPMs any more. The RPMs were just a means for
delivering the ISO to the host system from a yum repository, which is no
longer needed.

> - what is the purpose of ovirt_agent daemon ? I found that it is not
> working but it does not impact anything AFAIK.

ovirt-agent is a daemon which creates a few QMF agents that communicate
hardware details back to the ovirt server when it comes up. When the
node comes up and asks for its configuration details, the details sent
down are based on whatever hardware was reported by ovirt-agent. If the
hardware hasn't changed, then you won't see any impact. But if you bring
up a new node and the agent fails then you won't be able to deploy VMs
to that node since it's hardware capabilities will be unknown.

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