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Abstract
- Ovirt-node is a lightweight hyperviosr management system based on KVM and linux system like centos, fedora. Kimchi is an HTML5 based management tool for KVM. This project aims to integrate them together and to build iso based on them.
- User can use this project to rapidly create environment for creating VM.
Build ISO
1. Install a host with CentOS 6.5(fedora may also be ok but we haven't made tests on it by now)
2. Config yum for ovirt-node, kimchi which may need OS, epel. You can config them by yourself, or just run the following commands
cd compute
sh installrepo.sh
3. Install some dependent packages for building ovirt-node, kimchi
sh installdeps.sh
4. Build iso
sh autobuild.sh --kimchi
Install ISO
1. Install iso
(1) The procedure is the same as installing ovirt-node
(2) Config static ip, ssh login and host name in configuration page
Use kimchi
1. Use admin account to login into ovirt, press 'F2' to exit to command line, run the following command to config password and allow ssh login for root account
/usr/libexec/ovirt-config-password
2. Using winscp or other tools to update iso to /data directory of host
3. Using admin account to login into kimchi, which's URL is http://186.100.20.161:8000/
4. In template page, choose 'Add Template' to enter into Add Template page. You will find the ISO you have uploaded in above step. Select the ISO and press 'Create Templates from Selected ISO'.
5. In Guests page, choose template and create VM.
6. Press "Start" button to power on VM.
7. Press "Actions->Connect" to connect to VM. Then you can use the VM.
