I want to share the current state of oVirt on Fedora 28, hopefully it will save time for other developers.
1. Why should I run oVirt on Fedora 28? - Fedora is the the base for future CentOS. The bugs we find *today* on Fedora 28 are the bugs that we will not have next year when we try oVirt on CentOS. - I want to contribute to projects that require python 3. For example, virt-v2v require python 3.6 in upstream. If you want to contribute you need to test it on Fedora 28. - I need to develop with latest libvirt and qemu. One example is incremental backup, you will need Fefora 28 to work on this. - CentOS is old and boring, I want to play with the newest bugs :-) 2. How to install oVirt with Fedora 28 hosts Warning: ugly hacks bellow! - Install ovirt-release-master.rpm on all hosts dnf install http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/yum-repo/ovirt-release-master.rpm - Install or build engine on CentOS 7.5 (1804)[1] - When provisioning a host, make sure you have lvm2-2.02.177-5.fc28 without it, no block storage you[2] - When adding a host, disable "Configure host firewall" - it does not work now I hope that Sandro team will fix this issue soon. - Adding a host will fail, because without firewall setup, port 54321 is not reacable. to fix this, configure the firewall manually, or disable it iptables -F This is pretty lame because you have to apply it again after restart, but it was good enough for now. - Because the host was not reachable, we don't configure the host network so the host will be non-operational. To fix this, open host > network > setup networks and assign ovirtmgmt to the host management nic. The host will become UP after that. I hope that Dan team will fix it soon. - Adding storage will fail because sanlock selinux issue[3] To fix, set selinux to permissive mode: setenforce 0 At this point you should have a working setup. 3. Building and instaling vdsm from source on Fedora 28 - Install build dependencies using dnf install `cat automation/check-patch.packages.fc28` - Clean the source (needed if you rerun ./autogen.sh with different options) git clean -dxf - Configure vdsm with hooks - for some reason 2 hooks are required on Fedora but not on EL. ./autogen.sh --system --enable-hooks - Build make make rpm - Install the packages at /home/user/rpmbuild/RPMS/{noarch,x86_64} - if vdsm was never installed, you need to configure and enable it vdsm-tool configure --force systemctl enable vdsmd systemctl start vdsmd At this point you can test the new bugs you added to vdsm :-) [1] I did not try to install engine on Fedora 28. I guess engine folks can share if there are issues with this. [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1575762 LVM team fixed the issue couple of hours after I asked about it in #lvm We had a build for testing couple of days later. [3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1593853 We are still waiting for selinux folks response. Happy hacking! Nir
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