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Most of them are outdated, but provide historical design context.
They are not user documentation and should not be treated as such.
Documentation is available here.
oVirt Appliance
Summary
oVirt appliance will be a raw disk or an ova file that you can import to your existing virtual machine manager and boot it with a complete pre installed oVirt setup.
The first step will be to create an image with the correct functionality, in a second step the correct delivery format will be choosen. The latter might be currently blocked by the missing functionality in the build tools.
Owner
- Name: Fabian Deutsch (fabiand)
- Email: fabiand@redhat.com
- Tracker https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1053435
- GitHub: https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-appliance
Current status
Builds are stable and based on latest packages.
Availability:
- master nightly builds: https://resources.ovirt.org/repos/ovirt/github-ci/ovirt-appliance/
Details
- The appliance will be created using the livemedia-creator - later probably using image-factory.
- Reasoning behind this is, that these tools are maintained and support different platforms.
- The platform will be either Fedora or CentOS.
- Fedora for now.
- Configuration
- Engine installed and partially preconfigured
Current limitations:
- It’s not built using livemedia-creator, sysprep’ed and sparsify’ed because libvirt is not working nicely on jenkins
Use / Test
Prerequisites:
- FQDN which can be resolved on your local network
To use the appliance proceed as follows:
- Download the ovirt appliance rpmfile above
- On a RPM based Linux system you can simply install the RPM and you’ll find the OVA under /usr/share/ovirt-engine-appliance/ OR
- Use rpm2cpio to extract the file. Such as:
rpm2cpio ovirt-engine-appliance-4.5-20240131072037.1.el9.x86_64.rpm | cpio -imdv ./etc/ovirt-hosted-engine/10-appliance.conf ./usr/share/doc/ovirt-engine-appliance ./usr/share/doc/ovirt-engine-appliance/ovirt-engine-appliance-manifest-rpm ./usr/share/ovirt-engine-appliance ./usr/share/ovirt-engine-appliance/ovirt-engine-appliance-4.5-20240131072037.1.el9.ova 3116974 blocks - Deploy the OVA as normal
- When the OVA is booted
- When the assistant comes up, set a root password
- Login as root
- Start the Engine configuration using:
engine-setup --offline --config-append=ovirt-engine-answers - Answer the remaining questions, take care to use a FQDN which is resolvable on your network