On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 10:26 AM, Alan Griffiths <apgriffith...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was building my own image, using Foreman, Puppet and PXE. There's a > specific partitioning schema I'm required to use in my environment and > building my own image from Kickstart is by far the easiest way to > achieve this. > Also our default appliance is built from a kickstart file. You can simply customize it as you need and rebuild your custom appliance to be used with hosted-engine-setup. Look here to see how the ovirt engine appliance is built: https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-appliance/tree/master/engine-appliance > I can appreciate that in most scenarios the OVA install is the > best/easiest option, but it would have been nice to keep PXE and ISO > options. The point is that now hosted-engine-setup is strongly using cloud-init to automatically configure the appliance and execute engine-setup there. It's simply using the no-cloud datasource which is just a cloud-init specific iso file attached on the fly as a CDROM; doing it over a pxe boot will instead require a zero conf network to supply cloud init data and it's by far more complex. > On 20 November 2017 at 17:24, Simone Tiraboschi <stira...@redhat.com> > wrote: > > > > On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 4:39 PM, Alan Griffiths <apgriffith...@gmail.com > > > > wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> What was the reasoning behind making Hosted Engine install OVA only? > >> The PXEBoot feature always worked really well for me, and now I have a > >> number of extra steps to achieve the same end result. > >> > > > > Do you mean that you were customizing the image shipped via PXE? > > Deploying from the OVA is pretty convenient, if you want just to forget > > about it, you have to install also ovirt-engine-appliance rpm when you > > install ovirt-hosted-engine-setup one. > > I don't see other additional steps. > > > > > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> Alan > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Users mailing list > >> Users@ovirt.org > >> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > > > >
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