Auto-Installing oVirt Node

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oVirt - maybe you’ve heard about it. It’s a project to create an open IaaS “virtualization management system” - So a bit like OpenStack, but different.\ Fedora is the base for oVirt’s hypervisor: “Node”. Basicaly this is a stripped down Fedora, enriched with a couple of packages to prvide just enough to host some virtual guests and do some basic configuration.\ \ Personally I’d like to use Node in conjunction with Gnome Boxes or virt-manager. But this is currently not possible - but we might get closer to it when solving this bug.\ Anyhow, to quickly install oVirt Node you just need to add two (or three) additional kernel arguments:\

BOOTIF=ethX storage_init

You should/could also add\

adminpw=$ADMINPW

\ ADMINPW=$(openssl passwd -salt SALT) is a salted password, so you can log in (as admin) after the installation. Alternatively you can boot into single mode to reset the password.\ \ The parameters above install oVirt node without user intervention,  setup networking on ethX and erase all data on the disk and create a defautl (lvm based) partitioning scheme.\ The next step would be adding Node to oVirt Engine - or wait until it can be managed by virt-manager, which is much quicker to set-up :)

::: {#footer} [ May 15th, 2012 11:19am ]{#timestamp} [ovirt]{.tag} [fedora]{.tag} [node]{.tag} [boxes]{.tag} [libvirt]{.tag} :::