[Users] Newbie: some questions on ovirt

2013-10-04 Thread Mario Giammarco
Hello, I am evaluating ovirt as a developer virtualization solution and a virtualizer for fast provisioning of software in SOHO market (I send entire vms preconfigured) I use ovirt on centos6 with glusterfs. So I have these questions that I have not found the reply in forums: - In my lab I use s

Re: [Users] Newbie: some questions on ovirt

2013-10-04 Thread Mario Giammarco
Thanks for so quick and detailed reply! > > I use ovirt on centos6 with glusterfs. > > I assume you are using a posixfs storage domain? > Yes posixfx not glusterfs. > > rendering is slow; > > adding spice-devel on this one > Thanks, to be more precise rendering is laggy > > - I have create

[Users] Low cost OOB management device

2013-10-07 Thread Mario Giammarco
Hello, I would like to try ovirt powermanagement. I have no ILO so I would like to buy some power management device. Since it is a test I would like to stay in 100 euro range. Is it possible? Thanks, Mario ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://

[Users] Disk migration among glusterfs volumes

2013-10-07 Thread Mario Giammarco
Hello, I have a vm disk in glusterfs volume X. Now I have a replicated gluster volume Y. I would like to move the vm disk on it but if I go to "move" menu I cannot choose the target and I see a warning: "some disks cannot be moved". How can I move it? Thanks, Mario __

Re: [Users] Disk migration among glusterfs volumes

2013-10-07 Thread Mario Giammarco
Mario Giammarco writes: > > How can I move it? > > Thanks, > Mario > Sorry forgot to create domain ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Re: [Users] Low cost OOB management device

2013-10-08 Thread Mario Giammarco
Eli Mesika writes: > I would look for a APC strip (in ebay for example) > APC just disconnects the device from the AC power > Thanks, I have tried but I have found very few items. Most of them have no ethernet or are not for 220volt lines. Other suggestions? Thanks again, Mario

Re: [Users] Low cost OOB management device

2013-10-08 Thread Mario Giammarco
Yedidyah Bar David writes: > > Build one yourself with a raspberry pi - search e.g. for > "raspberry pi" "remote power"... Thanks, infact I can find on internet several remote controlled outlets at low price: -http://www.ubnt.com/mfi#m-Power But, how can I make them compatible with ovirt? T

[Users] virt-io drivers for windows xp

2013-10-12 Thread Mario Giammarco
Hello, I am testing ovirt and now I have tried to install a windows xp image. I used standard options but: - with spice display mouse is unusable, solved using vnc; - anyway all drivers (net,vga,others) are missing. I have found a virt-io iso but it does not work. Where can I find an ISO with a

[Users] Should host reboot trigger migration?

2013-10-12 Thread Mario Giammarco
Hello, I have a two hosts ovirt cluster. I rebooted one of the hoping to see the migration of vm on other host. But it does not happen and so vm are brutally shutdownd. Is auto migration supported? Where can I enable it? Thanks, Mario ___ Users mailing

Re: [Users] Should host reboot trigger migration?

2013-10-13 Thread Mario Giammarco
Doron Fediuck writes: > > - Original Message - > > From: "Dan Kenigsberg" > > To: "Mario Giammarco" , doron@... > > Cc: users@... > > Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2013 11:28:18 PM > > Subject: Re: [Users] Should host reboot trigge

Re: [Users] virt-io drivers for windows xp

2013-10-15 Thread Mario Giammarco
noc writes: > http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/ is the > place too look for. > The proxmox site/forum has a wiki page describing which folder > Thank infact proxmox documentation is more detailed. Anyway my blocking problem now is that, even if I have installed the

Re: [Users] virt-io drivers for windows xp

2013-10-15 Thread Mario Giammarco
Mario Giammarco writes: > Anyway my blocking problem now is that, even if I have installed the spice > qxl driver the mouse is unusable if I enable spice console, so I can only > use vnc under Windows. > Update: tried windows7 and mouse works nice. I cannot use usb

Re: [Users] Newbie: some questions on ovirt

2013-10-15 Thread Mario Giammarco
Itamar Heim writes: > > On 10/04/2013 01:58 PM, Mario Giammarco wrote: > >>> rendering is slow; > >> > >> adding spice-devel on this one > >> > > Thanks, to be more precise rendering is laggy Update: with windows 7 spice is fa

Re: [Users] virt-io drivers for windows xp

2013-10-15 Thread Mario Giammarco
Martijn Grendelman writes: > I have been playing with the VirtIO drivers from mentioned ISO on > Windows XP, but I experienced a lot of BSODs. > > In the end, I set NICs to emulate as rtl8139 and disks as IDE, and that > seems to work. > Many thanks, infact during creation of windows vm I have

Re: [Users] [Spice-devel] Newbie: some questions on ovirt

2013-10-16 Thread Mario Giammarco
Christophe Fergeau writes: > I'd make sure the QXL driver is installed in the Ubuntu guest, but I think > Ubuntu being slow has already been mentioned, probably related to their 3d > use for Unity. If there is a 2d fallback for Unity, I'd try this, or > a different window manager. > Ok I explai

[Users] Domain not found with windows7

2013-10-19 Thread Mario Giammarco
Hello, I am continuing tests with ovirt. Now I am trying windows7. I started without using virt-io. It worked for one day. Then the windows7 vm goes automatically on stated "paused" and there is no way to reenable it. Only way is to delete and recreate. So I did it. Now I cannot shutdown it. It bl

Re: [Users] Domain not found with windows7

2013-10-19 Thread Mario Giammarco
Gianluca Cecchi writes: > See this thread of mine if it can be in any way related, at least for > the "paused" state: > http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-February/012597.html > > No suggestions for the doamin not found error... > Thanks but unfortunately it goes in paused state alrea

[Users] Datacenter is down

2013-10-25 Thread Mario Giammarco
Hello, after some shutdowns and reboots of my ovirt cluster now the data center is down: - gluster volumes are all UP - all storage (Data/ISO) is inactive - Datacenter is down. I have tried to click on all "activate" buttons I have found but nothing happens. Only one time I got: - failed to act

Re: [Users] Datacenter is down

2013-10-25 Thread Mario Giammarco
Itamar Heim writes: > > > engine logs? > vdsm logs from spm candidate host? > vdsm: http://pastebin.com/KZZ3pqL6 engine: http://pastebin.com/sX7sKpbE I am using posixfs for glusters ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/

Re: [Users] Datacenter is down

2013-10-25 Thread Mario Giammarco
Yes I can see al volumes, also in user interface. 2013/10/25 Vincent Van der Kussen > > > On 10/25/2013 03:01 PM, Mario Giammarco wrote: > >> Hello, > >> after some shutdowns and reboots of my ovirt cluster now the data center > >> is > >>

Re: [Users] Datacenter is down

2013-10-27 Thread Mario Giammarco
Mario Giammarco writes: > What can I do now?? > At least can you say me how I can recover disk images from gluster? Thanks, Mario ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Re: [Users] Datacenter is down

2013-10-28 Thread Mario Giammarco
Itamar Heim writes: > do you see the files on the gluster volume? > you should be able to convert it to an export domain and import them > Convert with ? The datacenter is down. Can I find the vm hard disk image and "mount" it? It is a qcow image? ___

[Users] Questions about Ovirt flexibility

2012-02-12 Thread Mario Giammarco
Hello, I have in my server lab several machines: - with debian or ubuntu - without virtualization extensions. So I ask: - is the ovirt agent (not the manager) installable on debian/ubuntu/gentoo? - is the agent compatible with rhev? - can ovirt manager use rhev agent? - can ovirt use servers wit

[Users] Run only the agent on centos/redhat

2012-02-26 Thread Mario Giammarco
Hello, sorry I cannot reply to my old thread but I forgot one question: can I install only the ovirt agent on centos/redhat? I have already several server with centos/redhat installed and I do not want to restart from scratch. Thanks again, Mario ___

Re: [Users] Questions about Ovirt flexibility

2012-03-02 Thread Mario Giammarco
I forgot one piece: can I install the ovirt vdsm (agent) on centos? I have some centos servers in my test lab (hp microservers...) and I can use ovirt with them but I would like to maintain centos. Thanks again, Mario 2012/2/13 Andrew Cathrow : > > > - Original Message - >&g

Re: [Users] Run only the agent on centos/redhat

2012-03-02 Thread Mario Giammarco
So there is an rpm works also in redhat. Great. I have read beta howto to install it in ubuntu and it seemed very difficult. 2012/2/26 Itamar Heim : > On 02/26/2012 03:00 PM, Mario Giammarco wrote: >> >> Hello, >> sorry I cannot reply to my old thread but I forgot one

[Users] mozilla-xpi for Ubuntu

2012-10-17 Thread Mario Giammarco
Hello, I need a working mozilla-xpi for Ubuntu 12.04 (and soon 12.10). It is strange that an opensource project as ovirt is only working on Fedora. Thanks in advance for any help. Mario ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mail

Re: [Users] mozilla-xpi for Ubuntu

2012-10-17 Thread Mario Giammarco
Jason Brooks writes: > > Jason created a PPA that's reference in the bug that I'm sure still works. > > spice-xpi is a little tricky because it needs to be rebuilt for every Yes, infact I am trying your 2.7-0 and 2.7-1 under firefox 16.01 and unfortunately it crashes always. If you have right

Re: [Users] mozilla-xpi for Ubuntu

2012-10-22 Thread Mario Giammarco
Jason Brooks writes: > This is the repo I set up to feed the ppa: > https://github.com/jasonbrooks/spice-xpi-ppa > Cannot compile. Missing typelib.py. It is in a different path in firefox-dev package. So I fix the path but now it misses header.py and this is really missing. Thanks, Mario

Re: [Users] mozilla-xpi for Ubuntu

2012-10-23 Thread Mario Giammarco
Andrew Cathrow writes: > > Ideally this should be included in the core distro. Is there an alternative to mozilla-xpi? Can I use spicy? ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users

[Users] Cannot upload iso

2012-10-28 Thread Mario Giammarco
Hello, I am using ovirt 3.1 I do: engine-iso-uploader -v -i ISO list and I get: Please provide the REST API password for the admin@internal oVirt Engine user (CTRL+D to abort): I insert correct password but I get: ERROR: [ERROR]::ca_file (CA certificate) must be specified for SSL connect

Re: [Users] mozilla-xpi for Ubuntu

2012-10-30 Thread Mario Giammarco
Itamar Heim writes: > > On 10/23/2012 07:38 PM, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > or easier, ovirt rest api, sdk or cli. > the cli has a console command which will handle launching spice for you, > just like user portal. > would be great getting it to work on ubuntu (it's python) > Again only on Fedora.

Re: [Users] mozilla-xpi for Ubuntu

2012-10-30 Thread Mario Giammarco
>> > and report back. Maybe we should submit ovirtsdk to pypi so >> > at least it will be installabe using pip/easy_install. >> >> i'll do that tomorrow. >> >> > >> > - Original Message - >> >> From: "Itamar

[ovirt-users] Mask CPU model and mixed clusters

2014-11-03 Thread Mario Giammarco
Hello, I would like to know if there are improvements regarding ovirt support of mixed clusters (with amd and intel cpus). I see that is a feature supported by kvm because at least pve/proxmox and cloudstack support mixed cluster with migration and ha. Thanks in advance for any reply! Mario

Re: [ovirt-users] Mask CPU model and mixed clusters

2014-11-10 Thread Mario Giammarco
Mario Giammarco writes: > I would like to know if there are improvements regarding ovirt support of mixed clusters (with amd and intel cpus). No improvements I suppose... ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mail

[ovirt-users] Complete evalution of backup solutions

2014-11-19 Thread Mario Giammarco
Hello, I am evaluating ovirt and considering backups. I have three solutions: 1) iscsi san that does snapshots 2) Glusterfs 3) ovirt api So I have these questions: - if I use 1) can I import a snapshot as different storage domain? - glusterfs snapshot implementation is ready? Can I do consist

[ovirt-users] Mount iscsi snapshot as another data domain

2014-11-19 Thread Mario Giammarco
Hello, if I have an iscsi san that can do snapshots can I take an old snapshot and reimport in ovirt as another data domain? So I can recover old versions of virtual machines. Thanks, Mario ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/m

[ovirt-users] Failure on last step of ovirt hosted engine

2014-11-21 Thread Mario Giammarco
Hello, I am following the guide "up and running with ovirt 3.5" but with iscsi and not glusterfs. On the last step (after I have already installed ovirt-engine in the vm) the script has stopped due to an error. So the ovirt hosted vm is not registered in the datacenter and iscsi storage is not seen

Re: [ovirt-users] Failure on last step of ovirt hosted engine

2014-11-21 Thread Mario Giammarco
I add that also I cannot add the iscsi storage domain to current datacenter because obviously it is already attached to another datacenter. Mario 2014-11-21 19:39 GMT+01:00 Mario Giammarco : > Hello, > I am following the guide "up and running with ovirt 3.5" but with iscsi >

[ovirt-users] Failure on last step of ovirt hosted engine

2014-11-22 Thread Mario Giammarco
Hello, I am following the guide "up and running with ovirt 3.5" but with iscsi and not glusterfs. On the last step (after I have already installed ovirt-engine in the vm) the script has stopped due to an error. So the ovirt hosted vm is not registered in the datacenter and iscsi storage is not seen

Re: [ovirt-users] Mount iscsi snapshot as another data domain

2014-11-23 Thread Mario Giammarco
2014-11-20 12:45 GMT+01:00 Simone Tiraboschi : > > > If you use direct LUN option for a VM image, you can take a snapshot of > that LUN on the SAN and attach it as another direct LUN and eventually boot > from that. Do you really need to take an online snapshot of the whole > storage domain with a

Re: [ovirt-users] Failure on last step of ovirt hosted engine

2014-11-24 Thread Mario Giammarco
2014-11-24 10:53 GMT+01:00 Sandro Bonazzola : > > > Can you please attach the logs of the error you got? > I can't help with trying to complete a setup manually without knowing the > current state :-) > > > I fear I have lost the log, can you please help me providing the name or path of the log fi

Re: [ovirt-users] Failure on last step of ovirt hosted engine

2014-11-24 Thread Mario Giammarco
to make it work. Thanks, Mario 2014-11-24 12:45 GMT+01:00 Sandro Bonazzola : > Il 24/11/2014 12:26, Mario Giammarco ha scritto: > > > > > > 2014-11-24 10:53 GMT+01:00 Sandro Bonazzola <mailto:sbona...@redhat.com>>: > > > > > > > > Can

[ovirt-users] Ovirt and power saving

2015-01-13 Thread Mario Giammarco
Hello, I would like to ask if it is possible to do this use case with ovirt: 1) two servers powered on 2) operator suspend some virtual machines 3) load falls down 4) ovirt shutdown one server Then operator unpauses virtual machines and ovirt starts again the 2nd server. Thanks, Mario __

Re: [ovirt-users] Ovirt and power saving

2015-01-13 Thread Mario Giammarco
> "HostsInReserve" to 0 if you do not want additional hosts in reserve. > > - Original Message - > From: "Mario Giammarco" > To: users@ovirt.org > Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 1:30:38 PM > Subject: [ovirt-users] Ovirt and power saving > > H

Re: [ovirt-users] Ovirt and power saving

2015-01-13 Thread Mario Giammarco
d so > trigger the low > utilization parameter"? > > ----- Original Message - > From: "Mario Giammarco" > To: "Artyom Lukianov" > Cc: users@ovirt.org > Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 3:05:06 PM > Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Ovirt and power s

Re: [ovirt-users] Ovirt and power saving

2015-01-13 Thread Mario Giammarco
; Donny D > > > > *From:* users-boun...@ovirt.org [mailto:users-boun...@ovirt.org] *On > Behalf Of *Mario Giammarco > *Sent:* Tuesday, January 13, 2015 8:23 AM > *To:* Artyom Lukianov > *Cc:* users@ovirt.org > > *Subject:* Re: [ovirt-users] Ovirt and power saving > &

[ovirt-users] Put the engine inside hosts after installation

2015-01-16 Thread Mario Giammarco
Hello, I would like to try ovirt with hosted engine installation. I had so many problems (I have written them in another thread) so I will not try anymore hosted installation (up and running with ovirt 3.5 tutorial) But now I would try this approach: I install the engine on a dedicated server or as

Re: [ovirt-users] Put the engine inside hosts after installation

2015-01-16 Thread Mario Giammarco
2015-01-16 11:16 GMT+01:00 Simone Tiraboschi : > > > oVirt 3.5.1 RC1 will be published today so, if everything runs as > expected, oVirt 3.5.1 will be out in a few days. oVirt 3.5.1 should solve > the issue you reported. > Ok I will wait 3.5.1 and try again. > > Keep present that hosted-engine a

[ovirt-users] Low cost fencing/stonith devices

2015-01-16 Thread Mario Giammarco
Hello, I ask this question again to see if there are some improvements. I am searching for a low cost stonith/fencing device for servers or hardware that has no ipmi/ilo on board. I see that there are some interesting products on the market like ubnt/mfi mpower that are controllable power outlets

Re: [ovirt-users] Low cost fencing/stonith devices

2015-01-16 Thread Mario Giammarco
2015-01-16 18:52 GMT+01:00 Daniel Helgenberger : > Hello Mario, > > great you ask that, I am pretty interested myself. > > Great, I am not alone! > > Atm, I did not have time to persue this subjct any futher. > > > > Me too, if I had time I would have tried to develop mPower driver. > > So is

Re: [ovirt-users] Put the engine inside hosts after installation

2015-01-16 Thread Mario Giammarco
2015-01-16 12:37 GMT+01:00 Simone Tiraboschi : > > HA capability is provided for other VMs by oVirt engine. But who provide > it if the engine itself is on a VM on the host that it's managing? > HA for the Engine VM needs to be managed by the hosts and not the Engine > itself: so we have ovirt-hos

Re: [ovirt-users] oVirt 3.5 on Ubuntu? [oVirt Dockerized]

2015-04-11 Thread Mario Giammarco
Moran Goldboim writes: > > Deploying oVirt engine has never been so easy. Hi, I have seen the project and it is interesting a lot. Please note that next version of synology NAS OS will have docker support, so I can buy a nas and use it also as ovirt-engine. But I am learning docker and I see tha

[ovirt-users] ap7920 fencing device does not work

2015-04-13 Thread Mario Giammarco
Hello, I am trying to use ap7920 as fencing device for ovirt 3.5.1 I have configured all parameters correctly but I get only: 2015-04-13 20:58:21,704 ERROR [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.FenceExecutor] (ajp--127.0.0.1-8702-10) Failed to run Power Management command on Host , no running proxy Host was

Re: [ovirt-users] ap7920 fencing device does not work

2015-04-13 Thread Mario Giammarco
So, I just added the first host and I cannot check if fencing works until I add the second host? Nice to know Thanks again, Mario 2015-04-13 21:18 GMT+02:00 Eli Mesika : > > > - Original Message - > > From: "Mario Giammarco" > > To: users@ovirt.org >