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RHEV Wiki lives for a year or so, Wikipedia doesn’t get demise memo

doug — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:32:03 +0000

Seems the owner of Rhev-wiki.org is trying just about as hard as I am to maintain a useful piece of web real estate. A RHEV wiki was announced in September, 2010, but sadly now appears to be gone.

Now there’s an incoherent result in Google’s database:

The Wikipedia page was hosed as well:

I went ahead and removed the link for now. Looks like a GoDaddy domain that expires in Sept. 2012, so that’s not the issue.

Naughty boy, you no pay hosting bill! -Peggy

Gotcha: Virt-v2v Windows host import with RHEL6

admin — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 18:53:02 +0000

I spent a few hours today (a Sunday, BTW) testing the import of a 100GB Windows Server 2003 VM into RHEV via a RHEL6 host.

First I installed virt-v2v. Virt-v2v will happily install with out 2 packages needed for converting Windows hosts: the ‘libguestfs-winsupport’ and ‘virtio-win’ packages. The former is a new package for RHEL6, I don’t believe the latter is.

What’s delightful is that this is completely undocumented in the RHEV documentation. The virt-v2v failure messages give no useful info. It IS documented the V2V guide for RHEL6 here, as well as in a couple of bugzilla reports, such as Bugzilla 600151.

If you happen to miss these, you may waste a considerable amount of time, as I (and my annoyed coworker) did today. The end result was that our maint window passed and we had to bring the system back up. Something to be aware of. Apparently the entire set of docs, as well as the error messaging code in virt-v2v will be updated in 6.1.

Red Hat + Eucalyptus = Private Cloud

admin — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:49:32 +0000

This press release was issued last month and I missed it completely.

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – December 15, 2010 – Eucalyptus Systems, creators of the Eucalyptus private cloud platform, today announced a partnership with Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, to offer the freedom of cross-cloud compatibility and expanded customer choice in the cloud. The two companies are collaborating to provide Eucalyptus support for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Eucalyptus compatibility with the Apache Deltacloud application programming interface (API).

Read the full press release on Eucalyptus Systems’ web site. Or read The Register’s article about it.

My guess: A version of Eucalyptus Enterprise Edition will be offered as an cloud user portal add-on for RHEV 3.0 early next year. But what about the proprietary bits in EEE?

Nexenta Core Platform 3 on RHEV no boot

admin — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:57:28 +0000

Tried to boot the NCP 3 iso (nexenta-core-platform_3.0.1-b134_x86.iso) this morning to no avail. RHEL hypervisors are running KVM version 83. Grub boot menu comes up as expected:

GRUB screen

Boot proceeds and hangs for about one minute, then you see the following, then the VM hard resets:

Boot console

According to the guest support status page on the KVM site, versions 1 and 2 work under KVM. I’ll try a bare metal install at home tonight an see how that goes.