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This Documents has come to describe the steps required in order to install & configure ovirt-engine Use this guide in order to install VDSM on the same host as ovirt-engine: Installing_VDSM_from_rpm

Contents 1 Installing Prerequisite Packages 2 Configuring Ovirt's Repository 3 Ovirt-engine 3.1 Installing & Configuring ovirt-engine 3.1.1 Cleanup 3.1.2 Install 3.1.3 Additional Configuration 3.1.4 JBoss AS Security

Installing Prerequisite Packages

execute the following command as root:

yum install -y wget postgresql-server postgresql-contrib pgadmin3 java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel
 

Configuring Ovirt's Repository

Execute the following command:

wget http://www.ovirt.org/releases/stable/fedora/16/ovirt-engine.repo -P /etc/yum.repos.d/
 

or (if you wish to use nightly builds):

wget http://www.ovirt.org/releases/nightly/fedora/16/ovirt-engine.repo -P /etc/yum.repos.d/
 

Ovirt-engine

Installing & Configuring ovirt-engine

Cleanup

Before every re-installation, you should run the cleanup utility:

engine-cleanup
 

Install

Install ovirt-engine by executing:

yum install -y ovirt-engine
 

and execute the installation utility:

engine-setup
 

Additional Configuration

If you wish to turn off secured connection to the hosts:

psql -U postgres engine -c "update vdc_options set option_value='false' where option_name='UseSecureConnectionWithServers' and version='general';"
 

If you issued the above command, you should also submit the following command to work around ovirt-engine bug 784348:

psql -U postgres engine -c "update vdc_options set option_value='' where option_name = 'SpiceSecureChannels';"
 

JBoss AS Security

We currently use a customize rpm wrapping JBoss AS 7.1.0.Beta1b.