Ovirt engine/manager in a VM controlled by ovirt engine/manager .. Is it possible ?

Is there a way to install ovirt manager/engine on an ovirt-node or hypervisor ? As of now, we have to install engine and get running before configuring ovirt nodes. How-ever this facility is being achieved by “Self Hosting Engine” feature of ovirt development.  I will write more about it soon, till then refer# http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Self_Hosted_Engine Also …

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How to build a virt-p2v ISO in fedora ( F18/F17) using virt-p2v-image-builder ?

Install ‘virt-p2v-image-builder’ package in your fedora system. I installed in fedora 18 . virt-p2v-image-builder-0.9.0-1.fc18.noarch   Now, run ‘virt-p2v-image-builder ‘ commmand as shown below [cc] [root]# virt-p2v-image-builder Package ql2200-firmware is obsoleted by linux-firmware, trying to install linux-firmware-20130418-0.1.gitb584174.fc18.noarch instead Package ql23xx-firmware is obsoleted by linux-firmware, trying to install linux-firmware-20130418-0.1.gitb584174.fc18.noarch instead Package ql2100-firmware is obsoleted by linux-firmware, trying …

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AllInOne configuration with fedora 18 and ovirt 3.2 ( ovirt-engine-setup-plugin-allinone “Configure VDSM on this host?” ) ..

In this article, I am gonna write about “ovirt-engine-setup-plugin-allinone ” setup , a nice feature of ovirt. My strings are about ovirt 3.2 and fedora 18. “All in One” means configuring VDSM on the same host where oVirt-engine is installed, so that VMs can be hosted on the same machine”. Normally the ovirt manager, hypervisors/hosts, …

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What is Open Virtualization Format Or OVF ?

Open Virtualization Format (OVF) is an open-source standard for packaging and distributing  virtual machines (VM) and it is platform independent.. You can watch/consider OVF as a container or a package which contains OVF descriptor. This container/package can be used to port any VMs to any vendor specific virt setups which support OVF. OVF is basically …

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Quantum integration with ovirt ( videos )

Quantum network can be integrated with ovirt upstream and can be used inside Data Center. Watch below videos for more information on this.   This functionality is Tech Preview atm.   Lets proceed with second part of it..  

Analyse system boot up performance by ‘systemd’ or ‘systemd-analyse:’ in fedora

systemd-analyse binary has different options to list this: 2 of the interesting options are ‘time’ and ‘blame’    ‘systemd-analyze time’ prints the time spent in the kernel before userspace has been reached, the time spent in the initial RAM disk (initrd) before normal system userspace has been reached and the time normal system userspace took …

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Red Black Tree Introduction – part 1

Red Black Tree algorithm is famous in computer world.. Obviously smartly designed software adopt it.. It happened with the linux kernel as well.. so a study on it. I will be continuing the rest in other article .. Here is an intro on it. [pdf id=5400]