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Current releases

Prerequisite is Fedora 9 installed on a machine with hardware virtualization suppport, latest updates, kvm, libvirt, virt-manager and virt-viewer.

Download oVirt x86_64 appliance or download oVirt i386 appliance

and uncompress the image to /var/lib/libvirt/images/

# tar xf ovirt-developer-appliance-0.91-1-*.tar -C /var/lib/libvirt/images/

The appliance image can be used in two modes: Developer and Bundled.

In the Developer mode all of the Managed Nodes are actually KVM guests running on the same host as the appliance itself. In this mode 'guests' can be created inside of the KVM Managed Nodes, but these guests will be fully emulated. Developer mode is useful for trying out oVirt if you have a single host to work with.

Bundled mode is used when you have multiple hosts running on a private LAN. In this configuration eth0 on the appliance host OS is connected to the upstream network and eth1 is bridged to a subnet where the Managed Node hosts reside. This subnet is controlled by the oVirt appliance (as the oVirt appliance manages core services like DNS and dhcp in this configuration). Physical hosts booted on the same network as the Bundled appliance will automatically PXE boot the Managed Node image.

Developer and Bundled are the same with the exception of whether or not you are bridging to a physical network with real Managed Node hosts.

Run the script to create the virtual machine. The -v flag installs in Developer mode, the -b flag installs in Bundled mode. If you are using Bundled mode make sure you have a free eth1 network interface so that the bridge works properly.

For Developer:

# cd /var/lib/libvirt/images/ovirt-developer-appliance-*; bash create-wui-appliance.sh -d "`pwd`" -v

For Bundled:

# cd /var/lib/libvirt/images/ovirt-developer-appliance-*; bash create-wui-appliance.sh -d "`pwd`" -b

Use virt-manager to start the virtual machine or use virsh command line For the Developer appliance:

# virsh start developer
# virt-viewer developer

For the Bundled (eth1 bridged) appliance:

# virsh start bundled
# virt-viewer bundled

When appliance is booted, you can start managed nodes:

# virsh start node3
# virsh start node4
...

At this point, your appliance should be ready. Now, you can bring up the main oVirt screen by running firefox on the guest (here you'll need the root password, which is ovirt):

# ssh -fY root@192.168.50.2 firefox -no-remote

To connect to the console of a virtual machine running on a managed node use:

# ssh -fY root@192.168.50.2 virt-viewer -c qemu+tcp://node3.priv.ovirt.org/system VM_NAME