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Installing on RHEL or derivatives

Installing on RHEL 8.6 or derivatives

In order to install oVirt 4.5 on RHEL 8.6 or derivatives you’ll need to provide CentOS Stream required configuration. The following bash code is needed before starting to install oVirt 4.5 on top of RHEL 8.6

Specific to RHEL only:

subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms
subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms
subscription-manager repos --enable codeready-builder-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms

rpm -i --justdb --nodeps --force "https://vault.centos.org/centos/8-stream/BaseOS/$(rpm --eval '%_arch')/os/Packages/centos-stream-release-8.6-1.el8.noarch.rpm"

Specific to Rocky Linux only:

# On Rocky there's an issue with centos-release-nfv package from extras
dnf install -y dnf-plugins-core
dnf config-manager --set-disabled extras

Common to RHEL 8.6 and derivatives:

cat >/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Stream-Extras.repo <<'EOF'
[cs8-extras]
name=CentOS Stream $releasever - Extras
baseurl=https://vault.centos.org/$contentdir/8-stream/extras/$basearch/os/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
gpgkey=https://www.centos.org/keys/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-Official
EOF

cat >/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Stream-Extras-common.repo <<'EOF'
[cs8-extras-common]
name=CentOS Stream $releasever - Extras common packages
baseurl=https://vault.centos.org/$contentdir/8-stream/extras/$basearch/extras-common/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
gpgkey=https://www.centos.org/keys/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-SIG-Extras
EOF


echo "8-stream" > /etc/yum/vars/stream

dnf distro-sync --nobest

Installing on RHEL 9.0 or derivatives

Specific to RHEL only:

subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-9-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms
subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms
subscription-manager repos --enable codeready-builder-for-rhel-9-x86_64-rpms
subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-9-for-x86_64-resilientstorage-rpms

rpm -i --justdb --nodeps --force "http://mirror.stream.centos.org/9-stream/BaseOS/$(rpm --eval '%_arch')/os/Packages/centos-stream-release-9.0-26.el9.noarch.rpm"

NOTE If installation fails on centos-stream-release-9.0-26.el9.noarch.rpm please check the content of the repository for a newer version of that package.

Common to RHEL 9.0 and derivatives:

cat >/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Stream-Extras-common.repo <<'EOF'
[c9s-extras-common]
name=CentOS Stream $releasever - Extras packages
metalink=https://mirrors.centos.org/metalink?repo=centos-extras-sig-extras-common-$stream&arch=$basearch&protocol=https,http
gpgkey=https://www.centos.org/keys/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-SIG-Extras
gpgcheck=1
repo_gpgcheck=0
metadata_expire=6h
countme=1
enabled=1
EOF

echo "9-stream" > /etc/yum/vars/stream

dnf distro-sync --nobest

Due to Bug 2091581, while installing the virtualization host you will be missing nmstate-plugin-ovsdb or python3-libnmstate unless you install them from CentOS build nmstate-2.0.0-2.el9. While installing it you need to ensure openvswitch2.15 will be installed instead of any later version.

Here’s how to do that:

dnf install -y centos-release-ovirt45
dnf install -y ovirt-openvswitch
dnf install -y \
https://kojihub.stream.centos.org/kojifiles/packages/nmstate/2.0.0/2.el9/noarch/nmstate-plugin-ovsdb-2.0.0-2.el9.noarch.rpm \
https://kojihub.stream.centos.org/kojifiles/packages/nmstate/2.0.0/2.el9/noarch/python3-libnmstate-2.0.0-2.el9.noarch.rpm