[CentOS] RHEV guest tools

Thu Dec 29 19:42:15 UTC 2011
Trey Dockendorf <treydock at gmail.com>

On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:

> On 12/29/2011 10:26 AM, Trey Dockendorf wrote:
> > On Dec 29, 2011 9:50 AM, "Karanbir Singh" <mail-lists at 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.
>
> Do you specifically have the guest tools SRPMS, which is something we
> can do first and also come up with the whole stack later.
>
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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.