Hi all,
We're running RHEV as our main virtualization platform. Most of our guests are CentOS though. Do you guys know if there's a guest tools package for CentOS available like there is for Windows for example? Can't really find an answer here.
On Dec 29, 2011 2:25 AM, "Johan Kooijman" mail@johankooijman.com wrote:
Hi all,
We're running RHEV as our main virtualization platform. Most of our guests are CentOS though. Do you guys know if there's a guest tools package for CentOS available like there is for Windows for example? Can't really find an answer here.
-- Met vriendelijke groeten / With kind regards, Johan Kooijman
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I dont use RHEV (yet) but being that its based on KVM and libvirt I dont think you need guest tools. When you configure in RHEV Manager does it identify the paravirtual devices as virtio? If so then its standard in the kernel used by CentOS since around 5.5. I run all my CentOS VMs on the KVM / libvirt platform and systems install fine without any additional tools. The only additional thing I install is acpid to allow the VM manager to perform shutdowns and reboots.
- Trey
I dont use RHEV (yet) but being that its based on KVM and libvirt I dont think you need guest tools. When you configure in RHEV Manager does it identify the paravirtual devices as virtio? If so then its standard in the kernel used by CentOS since around 5.5. I run all my CentOS VMs on the KVM / libvirt platform and systems install fine without any additional tools. The only additional thing I install is acpid to allow the VM manager to perform shutdowns and reboots.
My bad, indeed, the guest OS works perfect. What I'm looking for is the extra data RHEVM can provide that it get's from the guest tools, like IP, memory use etc. See http://bastion.jkit.nl/~jkooijman/rhev.png. The bottom one is a Windows machine with the guest tools installed.
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From: "Johan Kooijman" mail@johankooijman.com To: "CentOS mailing list" centos@centos.org Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 11:07:57 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] RHEV guest tools
I dont use RHEV (yet) but being that its based on KVM and libvirt I dont think you need guest tools. When you configure in RHEV Manager does it identify the paravirtual devices as virtio? If so then its standard in the kernel used by CentOS since around 5.5. I run all my CentOS VMs on the KVM / libvirt platform and systems install fine without any additional tools. The only additional thing I install is acpid to allow the VM manager to perform shutdowns and reboots.
My bad, indeed, the guest OS works perfect. What I'm looking for is the extra data RHEVM can provide that it get's from the guest tools, like IP, memory use etc. See http://bastion.jkit.nl/~jkooijman/rhev.png. The bottom one is a Windows machine with the guest tools installed.
You are using RHEV2.2 right? There are no such tools for this version.
RHEV3.0 has RHEL guest agent for both RHEL5 guests and RHEL6 guest, the sources should be open in ovirt.org in the near future http://www.ovirt.org/project/subprojects/ If you use CentOS as the guest then you'll have to compile it yourself :)
-- Met vriendelijke groeten / With kind regards, Johan Kooijman
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You are using RHEV2.2 right? There are no such tools for this version.
That's right, explains why I haven't been able to find 'em.
RHEV3.0 has RHEL guest agent for both RHEL5 guests and RHEL6 guest, the sources should be open in ovirt.org in the near future http://www.ovirt.org/project/subprojects/ If you use CentOS as the guest then you'll have to compile it yourself :)
Thanks, that's helpful!
On 12/29/2011 04:34 AM, Johan Kooijman wrote:
You are using RHEV2.2 right? There are no such tools for this version.
That's right, explains why I haven't been able to find 'em.
RHEV3.0 has RHEL guest agent for both RHEL5 guests and RHEL6 guest, the sources should be open in ovirt.org in the near future http://www.ovirt.org/project/subprojects/ If you use CentOS as the guest then you'll have to compile it yourself :)
Thanks, that's helpful!
Would this spec file (and source tar ball) built the proper package?
If not, where would I get it.
I would be happy to build the proper source for centos extras for CentOS guests.
On 12/29/2011 02:21 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
Would this spec file (and source tar ball) built the proper package?
If not, where would I get it.
I would be happy to build the proper source for centos extras for CentOS guests.
lets see if we can get the entire ovirt stack done - its quite a pain building it at the moment though, but if a couple of people want to help - we might be able to get that in
- KB
On Dec 29, 2011 9:50 AM, "Karanbir Singh" mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
On 12/29/2011 02:21 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
Would this spec file (and source tar ball) built the proper package?
If not, where would I get it.
I would be happy to build the proper source for centos extras for CentOS guests.
lets see if we can get the entire ovirt stack done - its quite a pain building it at the moment though, but if a couple of people want to help
we might be able to get that in
KB
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I can attest to the difficulty of that build. I tried using FC16 srpms against 6.1 using mock and I spent an entire day with no luck. Wrote scripts that would yumdownload srpms then attempt a build the download missing deps and retry. Got to the point where only one new package would build then failed on kernel versions. Though 6.2 should much more closely match what upstream uses as I believe RHEV 3 will be released for 6.2.
Any idea if the full RHEV suite will be open sourced and eventually available in CentOS? Both the rhev hypervisor and manager. Ive lost the fight at my org to buy the product.
If you need any extra help with the build Id be willing to assist. Been following Ovirt closely.
- Trey
On 12/29/2011 10:26 AM, Trey Dockendorf wrote:
On Dec 29, 2011 9:50 AM, "Karanbir Singh" mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
On 12/29/2011 02:21 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
Would this spec file (and source tar ball) built the proper package?
If not, where would I get it.
I would be happy to build the proper source for centos extras for CentOS guests.
lets see if we can get the entire ovirt stack done - its quite a pain building it at the moment though, but if a couple of people want to help
we might be able to get that in
KB
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
I can attest to the difficulty of that build. I tried using FC16 srpms against 6.1 using mock and I spent an entire day with no luck. Wrote scripts that would yumdownload srpms then attempt a build the download missing deps and retry. Got to the point where only one new package would build then failed on kernel versions. Though 6.2 should much more closely match what upstream uses as I believe RHEV 3 will be released for 6.2.
Any idea if the full RHEV suite will be open sourced and eventually available in CentOS? Both the rhev hypervisor and manager. Ive lost the fight at my org to buy the product.
If you need any extra help with the build Id be willing to assist. Been following Ovirt closely.
Do you specifically have the guest tools SRPMS, which is something we can do first and also come up with the whole stack later.
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
On 12/29/2011 10:26 AM, Trey Dockendorf wrote:
On Dec 29, 2011 9:50 AM, "Karanbir Singh" mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
On 12/29/2011 02:21 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
Would this spec file (and source tar ball) built the proper package?
If not, where would I get it.
I would be happy to build the proper source for centos extras for
CentOS
guests.
lets see if we can get the entire ovirt stack done - its quite a pain building it at the moment though, but if a couple of people want to help
we might be able to get that in
KB
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
I can attest to the difficulty of that build. I tried using FC16 srpms against 6.1 using mock and I spent an entire day with no luck. Wrote scripts that would yumdownload srpms then attempt a build the download missing deps and retry. Got to the point where only one new package
would
build then failed on kernel versions. Though 6.2 should much more
closely
match what upstream uses as I believe RHEV 3 will be released for 6.2.
Any idea if the full RHEV suite will be open sourced and eventually available in CentOS? Both the rhev hypervisor and manager. Ive lost the fight at my org to buy the product.
If you need any extra help with the build Id be willing to assist. Been following Ovirt closely.
Do you specifically have the guest tools SRPMS, which is something we can do first and also come up with the whole stack later.
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
I don't have the guest tools no. I only got as far as about 1/2 of the Maven2 deps and maybe half the jboss deps.
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 04:07, Johan Kooijman mail@johankooijman.com wrote:
My bad, indeed, the guest OS works perfect. What I'm looking for is the extra data RHEVM can provide that it get's from the guest tools, like IP, memory use etc. See http://bastion.jkit.nl/~jkooijman/rhev.png. The bottom one is a Windows machine with the guest tools installed.
I'm getting everything you mentioned in RHEV-M from my linux guests except ip address with no guest tools installed.
I'm getting everything you mentioned in RHEV-M from my linux guests except ip address with no guest tools installed.
Hm, that's odd. I'm seeing only CPU, but no memory for example. See screenshort earlier in the thread.
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