I agree. The "oVirt Node" part will not be a VM since as you said, it would be a VM within a VM - my mistake in expressing what i'm preparing.
Regarding the "single machine" (Engine and Node) "live iso" that you mention. Where can I find it…? Regards; Richie José E ("Richie") Piovanetti, MD, MS M: 787-615-4884 | richiepiovane...@healthcareinfopartners.com On Jun 5, 2013, at 3:28 AM, Joop <jvdw...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > Richie@HIP wrote: >> >> hi oVirt Community. >> >> This will be my first posting for help to the oVirt community, so please >> bear with me I'f I'm not to the etiquette standards you might have already. >> >> I'm trying to test oVirt as a FOSS Virtualization solution for small- to >> medium-sized healthcare organizations implementing various health >> information technology solutions (HIT) that the new health care reform is >> requiring. As a Clinical informatist, I'm very concerned about health care >> costs, hence I'm pushing for open source to take a wider stance in U.S. >> health care to reduce costs where possible and divert moneys to patient >> care. Now enough with my altruistic desires, and let go into the deep. >> >> I'm trying to create "virtual machines" (using VirtualBox, Parallels and/or >> VMWare Workstation); mainly one for "oVirt Engine"; ind later a the second >> one for "oVirt Nodes". This way, these VM's files can be copier to any >> hardware and underlying OS, so at least the "Virt Engine" is easily >> installed and brought-up to facilitate managing oVirt Nodes. I considered >> creating ".iso" images of each component (Engine and Nodes) but I'm afraid >> this will hit the wall for linux novices when installing the ".iso" images >> in different hardware platforms (with different processors, number of cores, >> RAM, chipsets, etc.) >> > If I understand you correctly you want to make VMs for both engine and node > so that you'll only need those images to setup a virtualisation > infrastructure? > If so that is only partly going to work. The engine VM will work but the node > not since that would imply nested virtualisation. That can work but not for > every combination and probably not for the above mentioned products. > Node needs to run on the bare metal since it provides the same functions as > VirtualBox/Parallels/VMWare, its Fedora18 as its operating system + kvm as > its virtualiser. > > Concerning you dns problems, to make it short, you'll need to come up with a > naming scheme and implement that either using a full dns server or through > /etc/hosts. > You might also have a look at the all-in-one plugin which turns a single > machine into both engine and node or if you want to play around have a look > at the live iso. > > Regards, > > Joop >
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