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Having reached a good break point in my Gluster/Openstack/Fedora tests, I thought I’d preupgrade the F16 VM I’ve been using for ovirt engine to F17, en route to the oVirt 3.1 beta. That didn’t go so well. During the post-preupgrade part (uh, the upgrade), the installer balked at upgrading the jboss-as package that shipped with oVirt 3.0. Afterward, the VM wouldn’t boot correctly. Fortunately, I was prepared for failure, detaching my iso domain in advance, and shuttling the templates and VMs…
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Within the past couple weeks, Fedora and Gluster rolled out new versions, packed with too many features to discuss in a single blog post. However, a couple of the stand-out updates in each release overlap neatly enough to tackle them together–namely, the inclusion of OpenStack Essex in Fedora 17 and support for using Gluster 3.3 as a storage backend for OpenStack. I’ve tested OpenStack a couple of times in the past, and I’m happy to report that while the project remains a…
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I reinstalled Fedora 17 on my main work machine yesterday — I was having weird issues with gnome-boxes and virt-manager, and thought my problems might have stemmed from the weird libvirt machinations I undertook to get oVirt running on my laptop w/o disabling NetworkManager. I always keep my home directory in a separate partition to allow for easy clean installs w/o losing my data, but this time around I copied my home directory off to a separate drive to start…
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So, I’m working my way through the OpenShift Origin BYO PaaS wiki page, but I’m stuck right now near the finish line. On Saturday, I was cranking through the howto, highlighting and middle-click pasting my way to BYOP nirvana, until I hit an authentication issue when it was time to create a domain on my newly-minted PaaS. After taking a break for a couple days, I realized that I’d simply forgotten to point my rhc client at the right host…
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Perusing new open source software projects has long been both a job requirement and a pastime for me. Over the past decade plus so I’ve come across a ton of open source project web sites, running the gamut from good to bad — with a healthy contingent of ugly in the mix. Of course, it takes more than a sweet web site to make an open source project worth writing about or contributing to — a project that offers up…
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I’m working through the OpenShift Origin Build Your Own PaaS howto, which says: Several of the cartridge packages have additional third party dependencies. These have not yet been resolved for the open source environment. Work is actively progressing. On my Fedora 16 host, these are the cartridges that wouldn’t install for missing dependencies: cartridge-jbossas-7.noarch : Provides JBossAS7 support cartridge-jenkins-1.4.noarch : Provides jenkins-1.4 support These are the ones that would install: cartridge-10gen-mms-agent-0.1.noarch : Embedded 10gen MMS agent for performance monitoring of MondoDB cartridge-cron-1.4.noarch…
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The OpenShift Origin LiveCD will have you up and running with the code that backs Red Hat’s PaaS in a flash, but installing the LiveCD to your hard drive requires a few workaround steps. [UPDATE: Check out wiki-fied, updated version of this howto at the OpenShift Origin community site.] Today, Red Hat delivered on its pledge to open the source code and development process behind its Platform as a Service offering, OpenShift. To help avoid confusion between the Red Hat-hosted…
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In general, I prefer Google+ to Twitter. I like posting more than 140 characters, and I like editing my posts if I need/want to (there are other things I like about G+, but this test post is about those first two). I noticed, recently, how people who post wp.me links onto Twitter get their posts, or a portion of their posts, attached to the tweet behind a little photo-style view media link. I’m messing with that right now. I should…
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As loyal readers of this blog (if any such creatures did exist) might have noticed, I’ve been working with the oVirt project, which got a reboot last year when Red Hat finished open sourcing and porting to Java the previously .Net-based management for its enterprise virtualization product. Given the new start for oVirt, the project has been keen to get a handle on its community metrics, such as mailing list activity: is it growing, what’s the mix of people coming from…
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