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Installing VDSM from rpm

This Documents has come to describe the steps required in order to install & configure VDSM on the same host with ovirt-engine, this steps are usually not required when installing VDSM on another host than ovirt-engine.

Installing Prerequisite Packages

execute the following command as root:

  yum install -y bridge-utils

Configuring oVirt’s Repository

Follow the Install nightly snapshot guide.

VDSM

Configuring the bridge Interface

Disable the network manager service by executing as root:

  systemctl stop NetworkManager.service
  systemctl disable NetworkManager.service

  service network start
  chkconfig network on

Add the following content into a new file named: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ovirtmgmt:

  DEVICE=ovirtmgmt
  TYPE=Bridge
  ONBOOT=yes
  DELAY=0
  BOOTPROTO=static
  IPADDR=192.168.1.110
  NETMASK=255.255.255.0
  GATEWAY=192.168.1.1

Add the following line into the configuration file of your out going interface (usually em1/eth0) the file is located at: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-em1 (assuming the device is em1)

  BRIDGE=ovirtmgmt

and remove the IPADDR, NETMASK and BOOTPROTO keys, since the interface should not have an IP address of its own. Full Example

  DEVICE=em1
  ONBOOT=yes
  BRIDGE=ovirtmgmt

Restart the network service by executing:

  service network restart

Note that if any other bridge (from ovirtmgmt) is present at the time of host installation, the bridge creation operation is skipped and you have to change the bridge settings to correspond to above shown configuration manually.

Installing & Configuring VDSM

Install

Install VDSM by executing as root the following commands:

  yum install -y vdsm vdsm-cli

Note:if you are using vdsm-4.10.0, you may need to install libvirt-0.10.0 which can’t be found in yum. You can find the libvirt rpm in the following page:http://libvirt.org/sources/

Configure

Add the following content into the file: /etc/vdsm/vdsm.conf (you may need to create that file):

  [vars]
  ssl = false

Restart the vdsmd service by executing:

  systemctl restart vdsmd

If Vdsm was started earlier with ssl=true, it would refuse to start and you may need to use the undocumented verb

  vdsm-tool configure --force
  systemctl start vdsmd

which edits /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf and changes spice_tls=1 to spice_tls=0.